HTTPS with APEX and Orace XE

I looked into it and I cant really get a clear image on how this works and if it is possible with my current situation.
What do I want?
I want make HTTPS calls from my pl/sql like:
UTL_HTTP.SET_WALLET('location', 'pw');
req := utl_http.begin_request('https:.....');
What is my situation:
I just installed XE and Apex 4 on it, as far I know I have no apache or an other webserver running.
I know you need to set wallets and that the wallet manager is not available in XE due licence reasons but is it totally impossible to use https?
(honestly never did any HTTPS calls with any serverside script/code, and not an experience Oracle user either)
Cant I just manually drag a certificate or wallet inside a folder or something?
Or if I want to use HTTPS in XE I need to use 3rd party software and how?
P.S. It is for secure calls to the facebook API
Greets

I'm not familiar with that construct but did you try this and not have it work?
In general if you tell the browser to use https to connect to some ssl service it
does it without you specifying a cert to use... unless you were using certs to identify
yourself instead of ids and passwords. Most of the cert action is on the part of the
web service that is providing an https: service which would be facebook in this case.
So I'd say try it first if you haven't. I would imagine an id and password would have to be in
the mix however?

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