private static void disableCertificateValidation() {
		  // Create a trust manager that does not validate certificate chains
		  TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[] { 
		    new X509TrustManager() {
		      public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() { 
		        return new X509Certificate[0]; 
		      }
		      public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {}
		      public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {}
		  }};

		  // Ignore differences between given hostname and certificate hostname
		  HostnameVerifier hv = new HostnameVerifier() {
		    public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) { return true; }
		  };

		  // Install the all-trusting trust manager
		  try {
		    SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
		    sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new SecureRandom());
		    HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
		    HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(hv);
		  } catch (Exception e) {}
		}