[ncc-services-wg] [db-wg] Fwd: RIPE Database Release 1.72 - including SSO Integration

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 02:27:39PM +0100, Denis Walker wrote:
> The RIPE Database release 1.72 has now been fully deployed to production.
> 
> We would like to point out that, with this release, Webupdates and 
> Syncupdates can only be accessed with HTTPS and not with HTTP. This is 
> to conform to the requirements of using RIPE ACCESS now as an 
> authentication method for updating the RIPE Database. Any update using 
> HTTP will be automatically redirected to HTTPS.

Uh, what?   

This does not *exactly* meet POLA, and that part of the change was not 
announced as such - and as it's quite likely that this breaks someone's
syncupdate script (why would a syncupdate client be written to handle 
http->https redirects if all it wants is a single POST?) this really should
have been announced before.

... and I'm less than convinced that wanting to have HTTPS *for RIPE
ACCESS* is a good reason to force it by surprise on everyone else.

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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