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once you visit an https site, you can't using plain http

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even if one sets "dom.security.https_first_pbm" to false, among other settings, you get an error among the lines of: An error occurred during a connection to EXAMPLE.COM:5000. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

what? why is this still worrying about certs, when I clearly want to open up a non-ssl port, that's ridiculous, I gotta disable cache or delete it for this to go away at the least, I can't be using ssl on all the ports, that's an absolute pain

how do you get around this? how do you stop firefox from rewriting a http request to https?

even if one sets "dom.security.https_first_pbm" to false, among other settings, you get an error among the lines of: An error occurred during a connection to EXAMPLE.COM:5000. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG what? why is this still worrying about certs, when I clearly want to open up a non-ssl port, that's ridiculous, I gotta disable cache or delete it for this to go away at the least, I can't be using ssl on all the ports, that's an absolute pain how do you get around this? how do you stop firefox from rewriting a http request to https?

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