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I think its safe to say "it breaks the web" is from the user perspective, not the server.

It only takes 1 server to serve differing content through each protocol to break things for the user

Yeah, but that's a subset of "misbehaving servers break the web" as far as I can tell. HTTPS doesn't inherently cause this problem, it just provides one theoretical nucleation point for it.

Serving different things on https and http is completely to spec, though. It's not really a server misbehaving.

(I do agree that it's contrary to expectations, but I'm sure this doesn't stop sites from relying on it.)

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