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I agree, mostly. There are some cases when HTTP proxies (especially in corporate offices where your browser comes loaded to trust the company CA, thus letting the proxy pretend to be secure.api.stackoverflow.com) also mangle https. Still, that would be a rare case.
@Kyle Cronin - That would be nice, perhaps in six to eight weeks :) I plan on collaborating with a few people already working on apps about to go out in the wild tonight / this weekend