For a while, my ISP was using some sort of transparent proxy cache, which for some reason tended to stall HTTP connections (stuck in SYN-SENT IIRC). There were days when the only sites I could access were the ones using HTTPS, since the transparent proxy cache didn&#x27;t touch them.<p>The most advertised gain from using TLS is security, but to me an equally important gain is not having to deal with broken middleboxes.