For accessing repository behind https, the desktop client needs to deal with the sites certificate. We should present two options:

1) Obtain the certificate, show it to the user and if they accept it, store it in ncsa/mmdb
example:
http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/javax.net.ssl/GetCert.html

2) Accept all certificates without showing to the user
example:
http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/javax.net.ssl/TrustAll.html