I put together an extension with SSL support. It's not as advanced as SFSE, but usable already. Reason is, constant exceptions under Wine started giving me nervous tics. I know Linux/Mac users are a minority, but still maybe it'll be useful to someone. (well, nothing prevents a Windows user from trying it, too) Readme here, workshop discussion here. Screenshot:
BGforge MLS is updated to version 1.16.0. What’s new: Rudimentary preprocessing support for WeiDU. Data updates from RPU, sfall, IElib, IESDP. Custom icon theme for WeiDU projects: Changelog, forum.