Cannot open document for editing in Sharepoint (MOSS 2007)

Question

I am experiencing a frustrating issue when I try to check out a document for editing in one of our Sharepoint sites (running MOSS 2007, Office 2010, IE9, Win 7 32 bit SP1), when I try to open the document, I receive the following message: 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object.' and when I click OK, 'This document could not be checked out. You may not have permission to check out the document or it is already checked out or locked for editing by another user.' The second error is superfluous because none of those conditions are true. I believe this to be a local machine issue and not related to the SP server install. I checked the logging on our MOSS server and found the following error entry which I believe is related to my issue:

w3wp.exe (0x19D8) 0x3E68 CMS Publishing 8x0a High AppDomainUnloadListener.RegisterSelf() entered lock(this=64880701)

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Answer 1

I figured out my problem and it was a little thing. The whole time I was receiving this error, I was connected via HTTP and not HTTP*S*! Once I connected using HTTPS, I could check out documents just fine. Boy that's frustrating!