I agree. Both http and https downloads could be supported by using relative paths in the html a tags:

<a href="/Software/$$$">

This should work as the site host is msp.ucsd.edu and the relative path would be append:

http or https + :// + msp.ucsd.edu + /Software/$$$

On Oct 25, 2023, at 12:00 PM, pd-dev-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 23:42:54 -0300
From: Lucas Cordiviola <lucarda27@hotmail.com>
To: mpuckette@cloud.ucsd.edu
Cc: pd-dev@lists.iem.at
Subject: [PD-dev] https, msp.ucsd.edu and file downloads.
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may be the safer way to allow links to work on both types of connections 
(http and https) is to give relative URLs (stripping 'http://msp.ucsd.edu')

??? <a href="./$$$">


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