How to use databinder dispatch to invoke HTTP request against a web server with self-signed certificate ?

dispatch.scala

import com.ning.http.client._
import dispatch._, Defaults._

val requestTimeoutInMs = 5000
val allowSelfSignedSSLCertificate = true

val builder = new AsyncHttpClientConfig.Builder()
builder
  .setAllowPoolingConnections(true)
  .setRequestTimeout(requestTimeoutInMs)
  .setCompressionEnforced(true)
  .setExecutorService(Executors.newCachedThreadPool()) // Specifically set a threadpool so the spawned HTTP threads can be terminated by calling shutdown on the HTTP client
  .setAcceptAnyCertificate(allowSelfSignedSSLCertificate) // Allow to HTTP client to connect to a server with self-signed SSL certificate

lazy val client = new AsyncHttpClient(builder.build())

val myDispatchHttp = dispatch.Http(client)

// Do your stuff with myDispatchHttp

// Remember to shut down the thread pool
myDispatchHttp.shutdown()