"https" is a unique protocol that is simply SSL underneath
HTTP. You need to use "https://" for HTTP URLs with
SSL, whereas you continue to use "http://" for HTTP URLs
without SSL. The default "https" port number is 443, as
assigned by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
http://netscape.com/info/security-doc.html.
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