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Well the main question says it all, why are the files loaded via https. I am just adding some new libraries to the website, and noticed that the links are all https://.
Now from what I understand you use https when there is some sensitive information, and I do not think that is the case with these libraries I guess. I think nobody is interested in getting the content of these files.
Is there any explanation for this ?
People asked for it so they could use the libraries on things like e-commerce sites, which eventually require an SSL connection. They provide links to the https version by default to make it easier for everyone overall (automatically avoids mixed-content warnings), and for most people the slight performance cost won’t matter. But if you know you won’t have any need for it, just strip it down to a regular http connection:
They did actually publish the http URLs at one point, but I’d imagine that the resulting mixed-content warnings etc that came about as a result of people adding SSL connections and not thinking it through just created a bunch of support questions, so it was simpler to default to showing https and let people hack it if they really wanted.