From: <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:46:46 PST

This eventually worked:
 SSLSocketFactory fact = HttpsURLConnection.getDefaultSSLSocketFactory();

Is there any reason that SSLSocketFactory.getDefault() would not return the same socket factory as HttpsURLConnection?

In the end I had to explicitly set { "TLSv1", "SSLv3"} as the socket protocols or it would try and connect using SSLv2Hello.
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