[cynwoody]

I am not experiencing the “HTTPS” error

Are you actually using FR via HTTPS?

I get an empty response error when I try.

[Drago]

I am not “forcing” an “HTTPS://"; connection (just doing a “normal” “www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index” call...my Safari browser sees that Https isn’t available and defaults to http. Chrome on my Mac doesn’t give an error either...are you forcing your browser to only accept HTTPS sites? The only way I get “no/empty response” error is if I force an HTTPS connection to FR by entering “ https://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index “.

[Drago]

Try this FR page and see what you get: https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/
(It is an https: page).