It does matter if you're behind a dumb corporate firewall that doesn't care what you're requesting, unless it's not going through HTTPS. Why yes, this is dumb.

It does matter if you're behind a dumb corporate firewall that doesn't care what you're requesting, unless it's not going through HTTPS. Why yes, this is dumb. Why yes, I can't do anything about it. This is why having an https path matters.