[Biopython-dev] [Utilities-announce] NCBI will transition to HTTPS on September 1, 2016

[Peter Cock]

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 <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> 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:  <utilities-announce at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>
> 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 <utilities-announce at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>
>
>
> 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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