If you have SSL support available it will provide a
URL protocol handler for the https URL scheme. You should be able
to use this like any other scheme via the java.net.URL class.
Sun supports SSL in Java Web Server, Hot Java and a few other
products but does not currently have a reference implementation
that is downloadable from http://java.sun.com. The
sun.net.www.protocol.https class is part of the https URL handler
in Sun's SSL implementation. If you are seeing a "no cipher
suites in common" error it could be that the native method
support library was not found in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Solaris)
or on the PATH (win32) environment variables.
Jeff