I propose to give up on http://brewformulas.org and updated the wiki to use https://formulae.brew.sh instead.
Thanks Traumschule, agreed. brew.sh is the official homebrew site so better to link against them anyway. I only picked brewformulas because that's what someone pointed me toward (I don't use Macs, so I had no opinion on this). If it was just a transient site error I'd say 'lets wait it out' but brew.sh is the better option regardless of if brewformula was up or not.
I'll need to adjust our 'is the package wiki up to date?' daemon [1] along with the wiki. Added it to my todo list.
I was tricked by HTTPS Everywhere blocking all non-HTTPS traffic, thatswhy I pasted the failing https link in the mail.
Gotcha. Originally I was gonna mention HTTPS Everywhere might be at issue, but I use it too. Odd - thought the url rewrite regexes we use would be the same.
Cheers! -Damian
[1] https://gitweb.torproject.org/doctor.git/tree/package_versions.py