The API doesn't deal at all well with https

[ndw]

I don't know where to put announcements for significant upcoming changes. This is still "unreleased" software so I don't feel any particular constraints to maintain backwards compatibility. On the other hand, I don't want to break anyone's system without warning.

Here's the deal: if you enable SSL on the Management API or Client API ports, then all heck breaks loose with this API. In particular, for reasons I don't want to go into here, if you enable SSL and switch to basic HTTP authentication, you're in for a world of hurt.

I'm doing some refactoring work deep in the guts of the Connection object to fix this, but it's going to be a big bang sort of change.

I'll post a branch with the fixes as soon as they approach something like maturity.