Re: [Utilities-announce] NCBI will transition to HTTPS on September 1, 2016

Does anyone object to merging this pull request now? Should we
seek clarification from the NCBI about their HTTPS transition plans
first?

Peter

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Peter Cock <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello to all the Open Bio* projects etc,
>
> This is just a heads up that (all?) the NCBI website resources will be switching
> to HTTPS later this year.
>
> From my testing for Biopython is seems you can already request HTTPS,
> and the good news is that Entrez (E-Utils) and QBLAST both already seem
> to work:
>
> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/pull/860
>
> Peter
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From:  <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 2:31 PM
> Subject: [Utilities-announce] NCBI will transition to HTTPS on September 1, 2016
> To: NLM/NCBI List utilities-announce <[email protected]>
>
>
> Starting on September 1st, when you visit NCBI pages, you’ll see a
> green lock and https:// in the address bar instead of http://. This
> lets you know that you are really on an NCBI page – that our server
> identity is confirmed – and that your communication with our server is
> encrypted and private.
>
> Here’s what to expect if you’re a general user or a scripter:
>
> For general users
>
> You will see the changes mentioned above – https:// and a green lock
> in the address bar – but you don’t have to update or change anything.
>
> You don’t need to clear your cache or update any links to NCBI pages
> that you’ve put on your own webpages or shared with people. We will
> redirect all our pages to https://.
>
> For scripters
>
> To keep calls from failing, use https:, not http:.
>
> Scripts that use HTTP POST to send data will not work once we
> transition from HTTP to HTTPS on September 1st.
>
> If you'd like to know more about this change to HTTPS, please read The
> HTTPS-Only Standard [https://https.cio.gov/ ] from the Federal Chief
> Information Officers website.
>
>
>
>
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