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+## SSL
+
+SSL handling can be customized (or disabled) when creating a backend and is 
+backend-specific. 
+
+Depending on the underlying backend's client, you can customize SSL settings
+as follows:
+
+* `HttpUrlConnectionBackend`: when creating the backend, specify the `customizeConnection: HttpURLConnection => Unit`
+parameter, and set the hostname verifier & SSL socket factory as required
+* akka-http: when creating the backend, specify the `customHttpsContext: Option[HttpsConnectionContext]`
+parameter. See [akka-http docs](http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/scala/http/server-side/server-https-support.html)
+* async-http-client: create a custom client and use the `setSSLContext` method
+* OkHttp: create a custom client modifying the SSL settings as described
+[on the wiki](https://github.com/square/okhttp/wiki/HTTPS)
+
 ## Notes
 
 * the encoding for `String`s defaults to `utf-8`.