An example in Swift 2 of connecting to an HTTPS service and parsing the resulting JSON.

Swift2httpsExample.swift

let urlString = "https://example.com/names"        
guard let url = NSURL(string: urlString) else {
    fatalError("The URL: \(urlString) wasn't valid!")
}
let request = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: url)
let session = NSURLSession.sharedSession()

let task = session.dataTaskWithRequest(request, completionHandler: {(data,  response, error) -> Void in
    do {
        let json = try NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data!, options: .MutableLeaves)
        print("JSON is \(json)")
    } catch let jsonErr as NSError {
        fatalError("A problem happened trying to parse the JSON! \(jsonErr)")
    } catch {
        fatalError("Not sure what happened here! \(error)")
    }
})
task!.resume()