Still, why would changing one's country make HTTPS available again? Could also be to do with geographical regions being on different infrastructure, perhaps wi

Still, why would changing one's country make HTTPS available again? Could also be to do with geographical regions being on different infrastructure, perhaps with slightly different versions of the code deployed to them. Maybe some broken logic in a proxy or something. All it could take is a couple of bits flipped. There are many, many possible reasons for glitches like this in a system this large.