Bug #117470 MySQL Workbench unable to handle https when checking for updates

Description:
When attempting to check for updates using the Help -> Check for updates menu option, a dialog is displayed with the following content.

+-----------------------------------------+
|         Check for updates failed        |
|                                         |
| <urlopen error unknown url type: https> |
|                                         |
|    Please verify that your internet     |
|        connection is available.         |
|                                         |
| +-------------------------------------+ |
| +                 OK                  + |
| +-------------------------------------+ |
+-----------------------------------------+

No entries are written to the log.

How to repeat:
Select Help -> Check for updates on the menu.

Suggested fix:
Could be related to the way the OS is restricting relative path loading of libraries ("hardening" was the term I saw, but I was being over hacky and not an expert on this).

Considering the content of the URL being asked for is just the JSON of the latest version that's available ...

```json
{
"fullversion": "8.0.41",
"major": "8",
"minor": "0",
"release": "41"
}
```

maybe removing the HTTP => HTTPS redirect on http://workbench.mysql.com/current-release would be the simplest way to fix this as it wouldn't require a new release of code and is instantly doable within your server setup.

Hello Richard Quadling,

Thank you for the bug report.
As you have already noted, marking this as a duplicate of Bug #117369.

Regards,
Umesh