import java.io.BufferedReader;
  import java.io.InputStreamReader;
  import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
  import java.io.Writer;
  import java.net.Socket;

  import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;

  public class Test {
        
     public static final String TARGET_HTTPS_SERVER = "www.verisign.com"; 
     public static final int    TARGET_HTTPS_PORT   = 443; 
        
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        
       Socket socket = SSLSocketFactory.getDefault().
         createSocket(TARGET_HTTPS_SERVER, TARGET_HTTPS_PORT);
       try {
         Writer out = new OutputStreamWriter(
            socket.getOutputStream(), "ISO-8859-1");
         out.write("GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n");  
         out.write("Host: " + TARGET_HTTPS_SERVER + ":" + 
             TARGET_HTTPS_PORT + "\r\n");  
         out.write("Agent: SSL-TEST\r\n");  
         out.write("\r\n");  
         out.flush();  
         BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
            new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream(), "ISO-8859-1"));
         String line = null;
         while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
            System.out.println(line);
         }
       } finally {
         socket.close(); 
       }
     }
  }