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Simple standalone Java SSL client using Apache Commons HTTPClient library:

package au.com.valton.sslclient;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;

public class SSLClientMain {

public static void main(String[] args) {

System.setProperty(”javax.net.ssl.keyStore”, “local_keystore.p12″);
System.setProperty(”javax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword”, “keystore_password”);
System.setProperty(”javax.net.ssl.keyStoreType”, “PKCS12″);

System.setProperty(”javax.net.ssl.trustStore”, “local_truststore.p12″);
System.setProperty(”javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword”, “trustore_password”);
System.setProperty(”javax.net.ssl.trustStoreType”, “PKCS12″);

System.setProperty(”javax.net.debug”, “ssl”);

HttpMethod httpGet = new GetMethod();
HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();

try {
httpClient.executeMethod(httpGet);
System.out.println(new String(httpGet.getResponseBody()));
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}