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To be picky:

>Immediately after the maintenance, users will only be able to access Public PAIR through URLs beginning with HTTP, such as http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair. Past URLs using HTTPS to access Public Pair, such as ...

A URL beginning with HTTPS ALSO begins with HTTP

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To be pickier, they never said that all URLs beginning with 'HTTP' would be enabled, merely that URLs beginning with something other than HTTP would be disabled, and also that URLs beginning with 'HTTPS' would be disabled. They never stated that HTTPS was part of the "doesn't begin with HTTP" group.

I see what you did there.

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