I checked out this link here on SO: Dealing with HTTP content in HTTPS pages
I tried this regarding open protocols from here: http://benpowell.org/https-and-http-the
I was able to get the api to load on my site that enforces https with a little bit of php.
Basically, I curl the http site and store the results on a page on my domain which is https so it works perfect for me.
I wrote a little function to do the work for me
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