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Four years later this is still the case. When accessing the Ubooquity port 2202 via an SSL tunnel epubreader swiches back to htttp when the "read" button is clicked. Manually changing http to https "fixes" this.

Instead of a rewrite rule i would like epubreader fixed. Cannot find what causes this in the jar file.

Also cannot find the original source of epubreader, THe original codeplex site is dead.