title: Make a connection to a HTTPS server from Java and ignore the validity of the security certificate
body: <p>I've been testing a system that accesses a group of https servers with different keys, some of which are invalid and all of them are not in the local key store for my JVM. I am really only testing things out, so I don't care about the security at this stage. Is there a good way to make POST calls to the server and tell Java not to worry about the security certificates?</p>
  
  <p>My google searches for this have brought up some code examples that make a class to do the validation, that always works, but I cannot get it to connect to any of the servers.</p>