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Try changing from HTTPs to HTTP temporarily (a week or so) and see if that helps.

Another solution: Come up with a new domain, do a redirect.

I did try without HTTPS, and even without GZIP. Not for a week, but enough to test the 'fetch as Google' option in the Google webmaster tools.

I've also read that Googlebot shouldn't have any problems with HTTPS.

Google claims they don't have problems all the time. Doesn't mean you should trust them. Give it a shot, what will it hurt?

Tried again without HTTPS and this time it worked (What the f..).

I hope this will be fixed soon, I would prefer to force HTTPS everywhere.

Anyhow, thank you very much, at least now the bot will be able to crawl my site!