title: Is it possible for a site having URL starting with "http://" using HTTPS protocol
body: <p>I have a site whose URL starts with "http://" but that is giving me an exception with the message - Unsupported protocol: https. Is it possible that the site is using HTTPS protocol still its URL is starting with "http://" and not "https://".</p>
  
  <pre><code>public ActionForward executeAction(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
                HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
        throws Exception {
  
      ActionForward forward = mapping.findForward(Constants.SUCCESS);
      String link = "http://abc.fgh.jkl.mno";
      URL thisURL;
      HttpURLConnection conn = null;
      try {
          thisURL = new URL(link);
          conn = (HttpURLConnection) thisURL.openConnection();
          System.out.println(conn.getResponseCode());
          System.out.println(conn.getResponseMessage());
          } catch (Exception ex) {
          ex.printStackTrace();
      }
      return forward;
  }       
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Stack trace</p>
  
  <pre><code>java.net.ProtocolException: Unsupported protocol: https'
      at weblogic.net.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:342)
      at weblogic.net.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:238)
      at weblogic.net.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:172)
      at weblogic.net.http.HttpURLConnection.followRedirect(HttpURLConnection.java:643)
      at weblogic.net.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:422)
      at           weblogic.net.http.SOAPHttpURLConnection.getInputStream(SOAPHttpURLConnection.java:36)
      at weblogic.net.http.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:947)
      at com.cingular.cscape.da.struts.action.thisAction.executeAction(thisAction.java:56)
      at com.cingular.cscape.da.struts.action.BaseAction.execute(BaseAction.java:300)
      at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:421)
      at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:226)
      at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1164)
      at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:397)
      at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707)
      at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
      at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:227)
      at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.invokeServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:125)
      at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:292)
      at weblogic.servlet.internal.TailFilter.doFilter(TailFilter.java:26)
      at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:42)
      at org.extremecomponents.table.filter.AbstractExportFilter.doFilter(AbstractExportFilter.java:53)
      at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:42)
      at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:3496)
      at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
      at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(Unknown Source)
      at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.securedExecute(WebAppServletContext.java:2180)
      at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.execute(WebAppServletContext.java:2086)
      at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.run(ServletRequestImpl.java:1406)
      at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:201)
      at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:173)                  
  </code></pre>