[huac]

you'd think that this is a pretty frequently asked question though, no? how could apple dev support personnel not understand/answer basic questions that affect a significant portion of apple devs?

[eclipxe]

No I think most devs don't interpret the rules as the OP does. Connecting to an https endpoint is clearly not what they mean here.

[geofft]

On advice of counsel, or on the intuition that the US government's laws about crypto cannot possibly be that dumb? Because yes, the laws are in fact that dumb.