code: private String httpsQuery() {
  
  		String response = null;
  		try {
  			// Create a trust manager that does not validate certificate chains
  			TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[] { new LocalX509TrustManager()};
  
  			// Install the all-trusting trust manager
  			final SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
  			sc.init( null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
  			HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory( sc.getSocketFactory());
  
  			// Create all-trusting host name verifier
  			HostnameVerifier allHostsValid = new LocalHostnameVerifier();
  			HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier( allHostsValid );
  
  			URL restUrl = new URL( this.url );
  			HttpsURLConnection conn = (HttpsURLConnection) restUrl.openConnection();
  			response = query( conn );
  
  		} catch( Exception e ) {
  			this.logger.severe( "Cannot issue GET on URL " + this.url + ". Monitoring notification is discarded." );
  			Utils.logException(this.logger, e);
  		}
  
  		return response;
  	}
docs: Query a https URL, ignoring certificates.
  @return The query response