Was bitten by bug #604968 / #639156 and can confirm that the committed patches in 2.2.4 fix the issue. Since current stable mirrorselect-2.2.3 does not work at all here with ANY https host in the selection list, I recommend speedy stabilization. I gather OpenSSL got more strict verifying the certificates and mirrorselect used to pass it incomplete / wrong data (IP address instead of hostname).
Yes, please stabilize.
sparc stable
Revbumped for bug 686464.
amd64 stable
ia64 stable
ppc stable
ppc64 stable
hppa stable
x86 stable
s390 stable
alpha stable
Stable for arm/m68k/sh (ALLARCHES policy).