Fixes #4796 makes acceptAnyCertificate work #6170
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Fixes
Fixes #4796
Purpose
Actually it makes acceptAnyCertificate working
Background Context
In Play 2.4 upwards Play added a JsseSslContext and relied on Netty 4 / Asynchttpclient 2 while everything worked, the certificate handling changed and made it impossible to run under "really" loose SSL setups.
At the moment there aren't tests for this, but it will be actually hard to implement.
There is one way but since I would need to work around some things I didn't. Actually setting up a play instance with -Dhttps.port=9443 and point a ws.url to itself it will actually fail with a SSL Error so there would be a way to test, however the WS Test client doesn't rely on a typesafe config (
playframework/framework/src/play-ws/src/main/scala/play/api/test/WSTestClient.scala
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