Dear all, After talks on the mailing list regarding ways to ease usage of HTTPS in CXF client I created "[CXF-2693] Allow to use HttpsURLConnection's defaultSSLSocketFactory and defaultHostnameVerifier in CXF client".
If people are happy with this new feature, I would be very happy to commit the patch I attached to the jira issue. Cyrille https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-2688
