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// Create SSL Client
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CloseableHttpClient httpclient = null;
HttpHost target = new HttpHost('www.mysite.com', 443, "https");

SSLContext sslcontext = SSLContexts.createSystemDefault();
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslConnectionSocketFactory = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
        sslcontext, new String[] { "TLSv1", "SSLv3" }, null,
        SSLConnectionSocketFactory.getDefaultHostnameVerifier());

Registry<ConnectionSocketFactory> socketFactoryRegistry = RegistryBuilder.<ConnectionSocketFactory>create()
        .register("http", PlainConnectionSocketFactory.INSTANCE)
        .register("https", sslConnectionSocketFactory)
        .build();
PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager cm = new PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager(socketFactoryRegistry);

httpclient = HttpClients.custom()
.setSSLSocketFactory(sslConnectionSocketFactory)
.setConnectionManager(cm)
.build();

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// Send POST
/////////////////

HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost('/mypath');
ByteArrayEntity postDataEntity = new ByteArrayEntity(postData.getBytes());
httpPost.setEntity(postDataEntity);
CloseableHttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(target, httpPost);

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// Get RESPONSE
/////////////////

try {
        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
        result = EntityUtils.toString(entity);
        EntityUtils.consume(entity);
} finally {
        response.close();
}