In short, this is a table of my observations:
| From site | HTTP | HTTPS | Other ports than 80 or 443 | 
| apex.oracle.com | Y | Y | Y | 
| Cloud Free tiers | N | Y | N | 
| on-premise | Y | Y | Y | 
Conclusion: apex.oracle.com instance is very relax for testing purpose in a cloud environment.
 
						