BIRT Webservice Driver with HTTPS support

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I was interested in using a webservice dataset for HTTPS, but it didn't work and as I googled some on the implementation I found the author didn't include it. Atleast in the version that comes with BIRT 2.3.2,<br />
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org.eclipse.datatools.enablement.oda.ws_1.1.2.v200812171046.jar<br />
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I considered writing a custom class driver to do this, but it was going to be more effort than required. So instead I decompiled the current driver, which uses the RawMessageSender class and modified it. It only required four lines and some imports to make the change. I did compile with javac version 1.6.0_12.<br />
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There is one hiccup to be aware of. If you are using a SSL server that doesn't have an official CA signed certificate, you need to import that certificate into your java keystore. I considered implementing a custom trust manager so it would accept any cert, but I didn't want to modify the code that much. There are plenty of tutorials on downloading the certificate from the site in IE and implorting it into your java keystore.<br />
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This comes with no warrenty and as is. Thanks