No External Players Work With SSL & HTTP Redirects to HTTPS

[Skeletor]

I'm running Subsonic on a headless Ubuntu Server with Apache, using SSL and my own domain.
Version 4.4 (build 2169) – February 6, 2011
Server jetty-6.1.x, java 1.6.0_21, Linux (88.0 MB / 106.7 MB)
I have only been using the web player and the Android client because I wasn't aware this was supposed to work with other external players. WMP, VLC and Winamp will not read the playlists generated by Subsonic. VLC generates an MRL error. Winamp just goes through every song listing the address and won't read the file. WMP gives an error message regarding an unreadable file. Looking through the forum it seems that nobody has any luck getting external players to work with Subsonic with SSL. Can't find any documentation of this other than a few references on the forum. So I tried to enable http through another port using the /etc/default/subsonic file. That isn't actually enabling login through http. It just redirects to the https port. I've restarted Subsonic and Apache after the change with no luck.


Is there any way to get any external players to work with SSL enabled?
Does Subsonic actually allow logins from both http and https on different ports?
Is there any way to turn off redirects for http when https is configured in /etc/default/subsonic ?

[sophos7]

I am also looking for the answer to this question. Did you eventually find it or you still trying to solve this?

Thanks

[makre]

VLC 2.0.0 seems to work nice now over https connection.
If you have self signed certificate you only need to import your own CA to "Trusted Root Certificates" and then VLC works like charm as an external player