[sync] Sync4j / horde rpc doesn't work over HTTPS

[Nathan Sharp]

Chris Dillon wrote:
> Quoting Karsten Fourmont <fourmont at gmx.de>:
>
>> please file a bug for this on http://bugs.horde.org/
>> So it won't get lost another time. Thanks
>
> I have encountered this problem as well, but it does not appear to be
> a bug in Horde, rather in the Sync4j plugin.  If you were to make
> Horde available via both http and https, you would notice that the
> Sync4j plugin never tries to use https, it will only try http, even if
> you give it an https URL.  A traffic sniffer should reveal the same.
>
>
I have used the Horde sync code with HTTPS using the Synthesis client on
a Palm with no problems.  It warns about the self-signed certificate but
lets you keep going.