connection to SSL http?

[FlameHead]

I want a program that is able to access SSL HTTP server and make requests and retrieve pages.

Is there anywhere I can learn how to incorporate these type of streams in a program?

Or perhaps someone can set me on the right track by telling me what classed I would end up using?

[Dru Lee Parsec]

I want a program that is able to access SSL HTTP server and make requests and retrieve pages.

Do you:
1. You want to write server code that can do https?
Or
2. Do you want to write a program that makes request to a server that operates using https?

Answer to 1 : O'Reilly's book Java Servlets + apache + tomcat
The answer to #2 starts with java.net.HttpURLConnection.

Give me some more details on what you need to do.

[Isengard]

You could look into this :
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Security/secureinternet/