rolling back SSL support (too complex)

commit dd4d430e96c569d051fd7008abdc67654b0651bc
Author: Todd Gureckis <todd.gureckis@nyu.edu>
Date:   Thu Nov 14 16:11:25 2013 -0500

    more rollback of SSL

commit a36f6ac0f0c7bcbaf69a61cc163a40d277ade49d
Author: Todd Gureckis <todd.gureckis@nyu.edu>
Date:   Thu Nov 14 11:46:11 2013 -0500

    removing some old comments which seem inaccurate

commit 78f9e44ea12976d8f39aaf9356eb55efa2bd5b80
Author: Todd Gureckis <todd.gureckis@nyu.edu>
Date:   Thu Nov 14 11:27:45 2013 -0500

    rolling back SSL support (too complex)
merging dev (I hope)