Fix EHE (East Hertfordshire) scraper

[symroe]

What broke

democracy.eastherts.gov.uk uses HTTPS-only, but metadata.json still pointed base_url at the http:// scheme. wreq does not follow cross-protocol (HTTP→HTTPS) redirects, so the scraper hung waiting for a response that never came and timed out after 30 seconds. The HTTPS endpoint is live and reachable (confirmed: https://democracy.eastherts.gov.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetCouncillorsByWard returns a 302 from IIS — standard ModGov behaviour for HEAD requests; GET returns valid councillor XML).

Note: this same fix was attempted in PR #368 (June 2026) which was closed without merging. The scraper is now timing out again with the identical http:// timeout error, confirming the root cause remains unfixed in master.

What was fixed

• metadata.json: changed base_url from http://democracy.eastherts.gov.uk to https://democracy.eastherts.gov.uk

Scrape results

Metric	Count
Councillors found	TBC (Lambda run needed — HTTPS endpoint confirmed live)
With email address	TBC
With photo	TBC

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[symroe]

Re-scrape after ce09b53

Changed base_url from http://democracy.eastherts.gov.uk to https://democracy.eastherts.gov.uk in metadata.json.

HTTPS endpoint confirmed reachable from this environment (curl -sI returns HTTP/2 302 via IIS — standard ModGov behaviour for HEAD requests on the ASMX endpoint; GET returns councillor XML). Cannot run the scraper end-to-end locally as Lambda credentials are not available here.

Metric	Count
Councillors found	TBC (Lambda run needed)
With email address	TBC
With photo	TBC

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