URL endpoint = new URL(null, apiURL, new URLStreamHandler() {
            @Override
            protected URLConnection openConnection(URL url) throws IOException {
                URL target = new URL(url.toString());
                URLConnection connection = target.openConnection();
                // Connection settings
                connection.setConnectTimeout(timeout);
                connection.setReadTimeout(timeout);
                return(connection);
            }
        });
        
        SOAPMessage soapResponse = soapConnection.call(soapMessage, endpoint);

public SOAPMessage call(SOAPMessage message, Object endPoint)
        throws SOAPException {
......
       if (endPoint instanceof URL)
            try {
                SOAPMessage response = post(message, (URL)endPoint);
                return response;
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                // TBD -- chaining?
                throw new SOAPExceptionImpl(ex);
            } else {
            log.severe("SAAJ0007.p2p.bad.endPoint.type");
            throw new SOAPExceptionImpl("Bad endPoint type " + endPoint);
        }
    }

    SOAPMessage post(SOAPMessage message, URL endPoint) throws SOAPException, IOException {
        boolean isFailure = false;

        URL url = null;
        HttpURLConnection httpConnection = null;

        int responseCode = 0;
        try {
            if (endPoint.getProtocol().equals("https"))
                //if(!setHttps)
                initHttps();
            // Process the URL
            URI uri = new URI(endPoint.toString());
            String userInfo = uri.getRawUserInfo();

            url = endPoint;

            if (dL > 0)
                d("uri: " + userInfo + " " + url + " " + uri);

            // TBD
            //    Will deal with https later.
            if (!url.getProtocol().equalsIgnoreCase("http")
                && !url.getProtocol().equalsIgnoreCase("https")) {
                log.severe("SAAJ0052.p2p.protocol.mustbe.http.or.https");
                throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                    "Protocol "
                        + url.getProtocol()
                        + " not supported in URL "
                        + url);
            }
            httpConnection = (HttpURLConnection) createConnection(url);

            httpConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");

            httpConnection.setDoOutput(true);
            httpConnection.setDoInput(true);
            httpConnection.setUseCaches(false);
            httpConnection.setInstanceFollowRedirects(true);

            if (message.saveRequired())
                message.saveChanges();

            MimeHeaders headers = message.getMimeHeaders();

            Iterator it = headers.getAllHeaders();
            boolean hasAuth = false; // true if we find explicit Auth header
            while (it.hasNext()) {
                MimeHeader header = (MimeHeader) it.next();

                String[] values = headers.getHeader(header.getName());
                if (values.length == 1)
                    httpConnection.setRequestProperty(
                        header.getName(),
                        header.getValue());
                else {
                    StringBuffer concat = new StringBuffer();
                    int i = 0;
                    while (i < values.length) {
                        if (i != 0)
                            concat.append(',');
                        concat.append(values[i]);
                        i++;
                    }

                    httpConnection.setRequestProperty(
                        header.getName(),
                        concat.toString());
                }

                if ("Authorization".equals(header.getName())) {
                    hasAuth = true;
                    if (log.isLoggable(Level.FINE))
                        log.fine("SAAJ0091.p2p.https.auth.in.POST.true");
                }
            }

            if (!hasAuth && userInfo != null) {
                initAuthUserInfo(httpConnection, userInfo);
            }

            OutputStream out = httpConnection.getOutputStream();
            try {
                message.writeTo(out);
                out.flush();
            } finally {
                out.close();
            }

            httpConnection.connect();

            try {

                responseCode = httpConnection.getResponseCode();

                // let HTTP_INTERNAL_ERROR (500) through because it is used for SOAP faults
                if (responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_INTERNAL_ERROR) {
                    isFailure = true;
                }
                //else if (responseCode != HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK)
                //else if (!(responseCode >= HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK && responseCode < 207))
                else if ((responseCode / 100) != 2) {
                    log.log(Level.SEVERE,
                            "SAAJ0008.p2p.bad.response",
                            new String[] {httpConnection.getResponseMessage()});
                    throw new SOAPExceptionImpl(
                        "Bad response: ("
                            + responseCode
                            + httpConnection.getResponseMessage());

                }
            } catch (IOException e) {
                // on JDK1.3.1_01, we end up here, but then getResponseCode() succeeds!
                responseCode = httpConnection.getResponseCode();
                if (responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_INTERNAL_ERROR) {
                    isFailure = true;
                } else {
                    throw e;
                }

            }

        } catch (SOAPException ex) {
            throw ex;
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            log.severe("SAAJ0009.p2p.msg.send.failed");
            throw new SOAPExceptionImpl("Message send failed", ex);
        }

        SOAPMessage response = null;
        InputStream httpIn = null;
        if (responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK || isFailure) {
            try {
                MimeHeaders headers = new MimeHeaders();

                String key, value;

                // Header field 0 is the status line so we skip it.

                int i = 1;

                while (true) {
                    key = httpConnection.getHeaderFieldKey(i);
                    value = httpConnection.getHeaderField(i);

                    if (key == null && value == null)
                        break;

                    if (key != null) {
                        StringTokenizer values =
                            new StringTokenizer(value, ",");
                        while (values.hasMoreTokens())
                            headers.addHeader(key, values.nextToken().trim());
                    }
                    i++;
                }

                httpIn =
                    (isFailure
                        ? httpConnection.getErrorStream()
                        : httpConnection.getInputStream());

                byte[] bytes = readFully(httpIn);

                int length =
                    httpConnection.getContentLength() == -1
                        ? bytes.length
                        : httpConnection.getContentLength();

                // If no reply message is returned,
                // content-Length header field value is expected to be zero.
                if (length == 0) {
                    response = null;
                    log.warning("SAAJ0014.p2p.content.zero");
                } else {
                    ByteInputStream in = new ByteInputStream(bytes, length);
                    response = messageFactory.createMessage(headers, in);
                }

            } catch (SOAPException ex) {
                throw ex;
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                log.log(Level.SEVERE,"SAAJ0010.p2p.cannot.read.resp", ex);
                throw new SOAPExceptionImpl(
                    "Unable to read response: " + ex.getMessage());
            } finally {
               if (httpIn != null)
                   httpIn.close();
               httpConnection.disconnect();
            }
        }
        return response;
    }