Why does Rails defaults to SSL in development?

Question

This thread on github says that defaults for development not use ssl configuration it still forces ssl even in development. Is there a way to avoid this?

Im running Rails 4.0.0

UPDATE

Updated to Rails 4.0.2 - still always redirects to https in development for localhost:3000 and pow (.dev) url.

Answer 1

The browser was caching the https request. So I just closed the browser and restarted.