diff --git a/lib/em-webfinger.rb b/lib/em-webfinger.rb
index 97b31184c704c26e73d55ab0de258bb996da26a5..f5c4c6148611699500134c182ede0013e85ef948 100644
--- a/lib/em-webfinger.rb
+++ b/lib/em-webfinger.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ class EMWebfinger
   def initialize(account)
     @account = account.strip.gsub('acct:','').to_s
     @callbacks = []
-    @ssl = true
     # Raise an error if identifier has a port number 
     raise "Identifier is invalid" if(@account.strip.match(/\:\d+$/))
     # Raise an error if identifier is not a valid email (generous regexp)
@@ -35,9 +34,6 @@ class EMWebfinger
       profile_url = webfinger_profile_url(http.response)
       if profile_url 
         get_webfinger_profile(profile_url) 
-      elsif @ssl
-        @ssl = false
-        get_xrd
       else
         process_callbacks  "webfinger does not seem to be enabled for #{@account}'s host"
       end
@@ -77,18 +73,25 @@ class EMWebfinger
   ##helpers
   private
 
+  def check_nil_response(html)
+
+  end
+
+
+
   def webfinger_profile_url(xrd_response)
     doc = Nokogiri::XML::Document.parse(xrd_response)  
     return nil if doc.namespaces["xmlns"] != "http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0" 
     swizzle doc.at('Link[rel=lrdd]').attribute('template').value
   end
 
-  def xrd_url
+  def xrd_url(ssl = false)
     domain = @account.split('@')[1]
-    "http#{'s' if @ssl}://#{domain}/.well-known/host-meta"
+    "http#{'s' if ssl}://#{domain}/.well-known/host-meta"
   end
   
   def swizzle(template)
     template.gsub '{uri}', @account
   end
+
 end
diff --git a/spec/lib/em-webfinger_spec.rb b/spec/lib/em-webfinger_spec.rb
index eb88684a4478ed64d077ef8b690f1a5632a179ef..9c6d384a2e7dc8f01a5edbcc5fe61cdbf474970c 100644
--- a/spec/lib/em-webfinger_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/lib/em-webfinger_spec.rb
@@ -47,11 +47,6 @@ describe EMWebfinger do
           EMWebfinger.new('eviljoe@diaspora.local:3000')
         }.should raise_error(RuntimeError, "Identifier is invalid")
       end  
-
-      it 'should set ssl as the default' do
-        foo = EMWebfinger.new(account)
-        foo.instance_variable_get(:@ssl).should be true
-      end
     end
 
 
@@ -99,14 +94,14 @@ describe EMWebfinger do
       end
 
       describe '#xrd_url' do
-        it 'should return canonical host-meta url for http' do
-          finger.instance_variable_set(:@ssl, false)
+        it 'should return canonical host-meta url' do
           finger.send(:xrd_url).should == "http://tom.joindiaspora.com/.well-known/host-meta"
         end
 
         it 'can return the https version' do
-          finger.send(:xrd_url).should == "https://tom.joindiaspora.com/.well-known/host-meta"
+          finger.send(:xrd_url, true).should == "https://tom.joindiaspora.com/.well-known/host-meta"
         end
+
       end
     end
 
@@ -132,44 +127,9 @@ describe EMWebfinger do
 
         EM.run {
           f.on_person{ |p| 
-            p.valid?.should be true 
-            EM.stop
-          }
-        }
-      end
-      
-      it 'should retry with http if https fails' do
-        good_request.callbacks = [nil, diaspora_xrd, diaspora_finger, hcard_xml]
-
-        #new_person = Factory.build(:person, :diaspora_handle => "tom@tom.joindiaspora.com")
-        # http://tom.joindiaspora.com/.well-known/host-meta 
-        f = EMWebfinger.new("tom@tom.joindiaspora.com") 
-
-        EventMachine::HttpRequest.should_receive(:new).exactly(4).times.and_return(good_request)
-
-        f.should_receive(:xrd_url).twice
-
-        EM.run {
-          f.on_person{ |p| 
-            EM.stop
-          }
+          p.valid?.should be true 
+          EM.stop
         }
-      end
-
-
-      it 'must try https first' do
-        single_request = FakeHttpRequest.new(:success)
-        single_request.callbacks = [diaspora_xrd]
-        good_request.callbacks = [diaspora_finger, hcard_xml]
-        EventMachine::HttpRequest.should_receive(:new).with("https://tom.joindiaspora.com/.well-known/host-meta").and_return(single_request)
-        EventMachine::HttpRequest.should_receive(:new).exactly(2).and_return(good_request)
-
-        f = EMWebfinger.new("tom@tom.joindiaspora.com") 
-
-        EM.run {
-          f.on_person{ |p| 
-            EM.stop
-          }
         }
       end
     end