I found a workaround through Glide to accept the SSL connection. I created an AppModule for Glide by reviewing quite a few posts I found. This is the main one that started me down this path. https://futurestud.io/tutorials/glide-module-example-accepting-self-signed-https-certificates

I posted what I got to finally work here -> https://shift2dev.com/2025/01/04/how-to-fix-glide-ssl-exception-in-android-compose/

I would still like to know if there is something internally through the ConnectSDK that could be used to be able to display the images through Glide or was the solution I stated in this post the only way......