Requests I make appear to be redirected back to plain http URLs and the certs seem questionable:
% curl -O 'https://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions/?key=oxXcnoD51kKE crj7TadaA&tagged=marklogic&body=true&jsonp=stackunderflow._jsonp0&pagesize=3'
curl: (51) SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK