setting http connection with https url and a port doesn't work

[edhipat]

Setting up Airflow connection using connection endpoint does not work for "http" type with a https url and a port. We tried using following commands:

curl -s "$HOST/admin/rest_api/api?api=connections&add=true&conn_id=test_connection" --data-urlencode "conn_uri=https://172.0.0.1:8888" --data-urlencode "conn_extra={"some extras"}"

curl -s "$HOST/admin/rest_api/api?api=connections&add=true&conn_id=test_connection" --data-urlencode "conn_host=https://172.0.0.1" "conn_port=8888" --data-urlencode "conn_extra={"some extras"}"

Specifying connection host, port etc. separately also doesn't work.

[edhipat]

To give more explanation here, running command using conn_uri sets the connection, but type becomes "https" (although accepted value is "http"), and host becomes 172.0.0.1 instead of "https://172.0.0.1"