http urls for homeservers aren't supported anymore

since riot becom element on android, http support for homeservers stopped working

if I input http://address it fails to recognize the url, and if I omit http it prepends https, after which it tries to use it and fail

the server is on a separate network that doesn't face internet, it's not part of the federation and the connection already happens through an encrypted vpn, adding an extra layer of tls would be overkill, not to mention setting up a CA and configure it into android, etc etc ( letsencrypt is not an option due to the isolation )

would it be possible to add back http support? keep it off by default and only allow it after the user intentionally types the http prefix, perhaps give a warning that the connection may be unsecure if user warning is a concern