How do I allow self-signed cert for SecureAMF on iOS?

I have spent the better part of two days trying to figure out how the dickens to do this.
Basically, I am using BlazeDS (using AMF as the protocol) to communicate with a Java backend (using tomcat with a self-signed cert).
This works great in the browser version of the application (you usually get a little prompt saying that the site is untrusted when you try to access the website, you install the certificate and Bob's your uncle.)
However, adapting the code over to iOS I am discovering a couple of problems. The primary one being that the BlazeDS communication fails miserably when we are using SecureAMF with the self-signed certs. It appears that it is similar to this issue: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3940214#3940214
How do I get my iOS Air app to communicate with a self-signed certificate running on tomcat?
Here are the things I've tried:
1) Installing the cert using iPhone Configuration Utility
2) Browsing to the site in Safari, and installing the certificate manually
This is for development, so buying a certificate doesn't really make sense.
So, any suggestions?

Has anybody had any success here? This is a real problem for testing internal applications inside of a local network.

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