android https downloads,Android DownloadManager and SSL (https)

Oh, great. There's always something else that some... Grrr...

Anyway, so I worked days and days wading through vague, incomplete, and contradictory Picasa information so that my Android app could find a Picasa picture and download it using the download manager. So just now I made the finishing touches and hit the "run" button. Everything went fine until DownloadManager tried to download the file:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can only download HTTP URIs: https://example.com/image.jpg

Tell me you're joking. Tell me they didn't make a download manager that can't handle SSL...

Better yet, tell me how to turn on SSL access in the Android download manager.