This may be an issue for Bazaar use of Launchpad too.
I poked around a bit.
The downloads are ultimately served from launchpadlibrarian.net, which does happily serve http urls, eg. http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11342645/bzr-1.1.tar.gz.asc
However, the release download page <https://edge.launchpad.net/bzr/1.1/1.1> relies on https in 3 ways:
1- this page is served on https only. (Not a problem if the urls are copied to an external project web site available on http.)
2- this page points to eg <https://edge.launchpad.net/bzr/1.1/1.1/+download/bzr-1.1.tar.gz.asc> which is only available on https.
3- that location redirects to an https url on lpl.net.
This may be an issue for Bazaar use of Launchpad too.
I poked around a bit.
The downloads are ultimately served from launchpadlibrar ian.net, which does happily serve http urls, eg. http:// launchpadlibrar ian.net/ 11342645/ bzr-1.1. tar.gz. asc
However, the release download page <https:/ /edge.launchpad .net/bzr/ 1.1/1.1> relies on https in 3 ways:
1- this page is served on https only. (Not a problem if the urls are copied to an external project web site available on http.)
2- this page points to eg <https:/ /edge.launchpad .net/bzr/ 1.1/1.1/ +download/ bzr-1.1. tar.gz. asc> which is only available on https.
3- that location redirects to an https url on lpl.net.