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Chrome 44 cgi.https value changed from "on" for SSL traffic to "1" for all traffic

Weird issue, used to use a few cgi.https comparison with "on" as per  https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524602(v=vs.90).aspx which indicates it would be populated with on or off in IIS. In Chrome 43 this used to return the value on for https and off for http, in chrome 44 the value has change to 1 for all traffic (https and http), nothing in the release notes from what I can see at  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+log/43.0.2357.134..44.0.2403.89?pretty=fuller&n=10000 Update: Google acknowledge the issue and fixed it see http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?view=revision&revision=199090 The "number" of websites the release broke is funny, as I would think it is "a lot", WooCommerce apparently was broken, as was any PHP or ColdFusion code using the cgi.https comparison. Just as an FYI, I'm not sure what php.net did to their website in response, but their main google SERP says https://www.php.net which is unre