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What if I decide I don't want to share publicly. By then the contents of the page as I have viewed have been sent unencrypted.

Exactly what do you not wish to share publicly? Signing a petition is public by definition.

Your headers would still be unencrypted -- including the domain and URL you accessed.

The domain is unencrypted over HTTPS, but the path is encrypted.

So the difference is "you accessed www.dumpyahoo.com" vs "you accessed www.dumpyahoo.com asking for / "...

I agree in this case it isn't very helpful.

Thanks for the correction.