Consider implementing dependency injection for crawl HTTPS sites that use self signed certificates

It was mentioned a while ago that "to be able to crawl sites with a self signed certificate required a simple code modification the protocol-httpclient plugin."

in org.apache.nutch.protocol.httpclient.Http

Replace:

ProtocolSocketFactory factory = new SSLProtocolSocketFactory();

With:

ProtocolSocketFactory factory = new DummySSLProtocolSocketFactory();

I can confirm that this patch actually fixes the issue, however the thread hangs on a question which was never answered.

"Is there dependency injection that can be used?"

This issue needs to investigate the required logic which we can implement to make the decision at runtime.