had a hard time finding this so if you need to get html from an HTTPS connection in java, here is an example:
import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import java.io.OutputStream;

import java.io.PrintWriter;

import java.net.URL;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocket;

import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;
public class EstablishSSLConnection {
/** * @param args * @throws IOException */

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
String result = “”;

String urlString = “https://mystuff.com”;
URL url = new URL(urlString);
SSLSocketFactory sslsocketfactory = (SSLSocketFactory) SSLSocketFactory .getDefault();

SSLSocket sslsocket = (SSLSocket) sslsocketfactory.createSocket(url .getHost(), 443);
OutputStream outstream = sslsocket.getOutputStream();

PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(outstream);

writer.println(“GET ” + urlString + ” HTTP/1.1″);

writer.println(); writer.flush();

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(sslsocket .getInputStream()));
String line;
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {

System.out.println(line);

}
writer.close();

in.close();
}
}