public Socket createSocket(Socket socket,
    String host,
    int port,
    boolean autoClose) throws IOException, UnknownHostException 
{
        javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory socketfactory = 
            (javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory) javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.getDefault();
        return socketfactory.createSocket(socket, host, port, autoClose);
}

 public Socket createSocket(String host,
    int port,
    InetAddress localAddress,
    int localPort,
    HttpParams params) throws IOException, UnknownHostException, ConnectTimeoutException 
{
        if (params == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Parameters may not be null");
        }
        int timeout = HttpConnectionParams.getConnectionTimeout(params);
        if (timeout != 0) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("Connection timeout is not supported in old IO mode");
        }
        javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory socketfactory = 
            (javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory) javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.getDefault();
        if (localAddress != null) {
            return socketfactory.createSocket(host, port, localAddress, localPort);
        } else {
            return socketfactory.createSocket(host, port);
        }
}

Attempts to get a new socket connection to the given host within the given time limit.

 public static SSLSocketFactory getSocketFactory() 
{
        return DEFAULT_FACTORY;
}

Gets an singleton instance of the SSLProtocolSocketFactory.