[DOCS] http -> https, remove outdated plugin docs (#60380)

Plugin discovery documentation contained information about installing
Elasticsearch 2.0 and installing an oracle JDK, both of which is no
longer valid.

While noticing that the instructions used cleartext HTTP to install
packages, this commit replaces HTTPs links instead of HTTP where possible.

In addition a few community links have been removed, as they do not seem
to exist anymore.
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@ -7,13 +7,13 @@ The HTTP layer exposes {es}'s REST APIs over HTTP.
The HTTP mechanism is completely asynchronous in nature, meaning that
there is no blocking thread waiting for a response. The benefit of using
asynchronous communication for HTTP is solving the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10k_problem[C10k problem].
{wikipedia}/C10k_problem[C10k problem].
When possible, consider using
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keepalive#HTTP_Keepalive[HTTP keep alive]
{wikipedia}/Keepalive#HTTP_Keepalive[HTTP keep alive]
when connecting for better performance and try to get your favorite
client not to do
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding[HTTP chunking].
{wikipedia}/Chunked_transfer_encoding[HTTP chunking].
// end::modules-http-description-tag[]
[http-settings]