If you feel comfortable with the developer console (F12 on most browsers) you can circumvent this. The "onclick" event for the "download with manager" option makes a call to
loadBox('http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/ajax/downloadwithnmm?id=1000251755');
Entering that in the console, either omitting the "http://" portion, or by changing it to "https://", will allow the download to proceed. Yeah, it's not a problem for me. I was just making a suggestion for a quick fix the developer(s) could deploy. I think it's good practice to always make URL:s protocol agnostic.