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> This makes it hard for people to later upgrade from HTTP to HTTPS, because it breaks all of those references.

While someone else pointed out the rest of the URL could conceivably point to different content, in practice, it seems like most deployments have a 1:1 correspondence and will redirect from http://(.) to https://(.) when SSL is deployed so this is not so critical for the http(s) case imho..




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