Simple authentication over https with invalid certificate

Here's the story for opening an input stream on a url via https when the site has an invalid certificate (e.g. expired). You could place the certificate in your trusted store but this is a useful shortcut!

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.Authenticator;
import java.net.PasswordAuthentication;
import java.net.URL;
import java.security.KeyManagementException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;

import javax.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier;
import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSession;
import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;
import javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager;

public class SSL {

    public static class SimpleAuthenticator extends Authenticator {
        private final String username, password;

        public SimpleAuthenticator(String username, String password) {
            this.username = username;
            this.password = password;
        }

        @Override
        protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
            return new PasswordAuthentication(username, password.toCharArray());
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException,
            NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyManagementException {
        SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
        TrustManager trustManager = new X509TrustManager() {

            @Override
            public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain,
                    String authType) throws CertificateException {
                // don't throw exception
            }

            @Override
            public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain,
                    String authType) throws CertificateException {
                // don't throw exception
            }

            @Override
            public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
                return null;
            }

        };
        sc.init(null, new TrustManager[] { trustManager },
                new java.security.SecureRandom());

        HostnameVerifier hostNameVerifier = new HostnameVerifier() {
            @Override
            public boolean verify(String arg0, SSLSession arg1) {
                return true;
            }
        };
        java.net.URL url = new URL("https://hostname/stuff");
        Authenticator.setDefault(new SimpleAuthenticator("username", "password"));
        HttpsURLConnection con = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();
        con.setHostnameVerifier(hostNameVerifier);
        con.setSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());

        InputStream is = con.getInputStream();
        InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
        String line;
        while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
            System.out.println(line);
        }
        br.close();
        isr.close();
        is.close();

    }

}