Reading data on https protocol

Question

I am actually new to the community (even though I am a long time Visual Studio user). I am trying to figure out how to read data w/ the https protocol. I just need to know a place to start in finding this out. I have generally been fairly successful just looking for other threads but this time I have not. I am able to read from unsecured websites with no problems but in trying to formulate GET requests with for SSL, I am being met with "Forbidden" exceptions.

Thanks in advance.