Unofficial parts once again being redirected to https

[Travis Cobbs]

I appreciate the effort towards https even if it ultimately doesn't pan out.

Did you ever find a fix for the chunked vs unchunked downloads. Unfortunately it doesn't look we'll ever be able to enable unchunked.

I have updated my development code to use native https libraries for the Windows and macOS versions, and Peter has updated the Qt version to do the same. The MesaGL command line version does not support https, and probably won't ever. I just tested this with the latest parts update and (as I mostly expected), the updates script still contains http URLs for all of the files, even when the script itself is accessed from https. So, everything works fine, but the actual zip file downloads still happen over http. For reference, the exact URL that my LDView development code is using is:

Code:

https://library.ldraw.org/updates?output=TAB

Having the script automatically switch to https URLs would be a very bad idea unless it can do so only when the script itself is accessed via https. I'd be happy to add a second argument to my code if you update the script to support that. Something like:

Code:

https://library.ldraw.org/updates?output=TAB&scheme=https