http versus https for YouTube feed APIs

Question

The YouTube documentation for the video feeds API is documented here:

https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_video_feeds#User_Uploaded_Videos

It states:

To request a feed of all videos uploaded by another user, send a GET request to the following URL. This request does not require authentication.

https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/userId/uploads

I have found that the non-SSL format (http) of this API works as well.

I would prefer to use this version of the URL because I do not require SSL. However I am concerned that it is not documented (and thus might be dropped in the future). So, my question is, is the http form of this API officially supported?

Answer 1

I use HTTP too. The demo page from YouTube does not use HTTPS too: YouTube Data API

You should be perfectly fine by using HTTP.