// Register the "http" and "https" protocol schemes, they are
// required by the default operator to look up socket factories.
supportedSchemes = new SchemeRegistry();
SocketFactory sf = PlainSocketFactory.getSocketFactory();
supportedSchemes.register(new Scheme("http", sf, 80));
sf = SSLSocketFactory.getSocketFactory();
supportedSchemes.register(new Scheme("https", sf, 80));
// Prepare parameters.
// Since this example doesn't use the full core framework,
// only few parameters are actually required.
HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();