I can confirm that this is fixed in 10.9.2 (Since the first build of it). From the looks of things (and some friends in the Mavericks dev group), the final 10.9.2 should be dropping very soon
No...Not as far as I can tell. Attempting to connect over the bare IP address to an SSL site results in a curl error[1]. Whereas under 10.9.1 its allowed