This is awesome thank you so much. I was just mulling about for the past hour trying to figure out a solution to this since I've got so many authors who suck at remembering to swap out https for http when spitting out URLs to their blogs.
One issue I'm running into is short link URL still default to https, but everything else seems to work fine.
Also will the development version upgrade itself to whatever is available through wordpress.org when it gets updated? Thanks again!