[atlas] Forcing https in Atlas

See also: 
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-websec-strict-transport-sec-14>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security>


On Oct 4, 2012, at 5:14 AM, Robert Kisteleki wrote:

> Dear Atlas users,
> 
> At the moment the Atlas UI servers allow regular, unsecured (http)
> connections from clients. For particular features, most notably anything
> that requires authenticated users, we're using secure (https) connections.
> Unfortunately, the potential mixing of the two schemes causes glitches and
> inconsistencies for some users.
> 
> Therefore on 15 October we will start enforcing secure connections towards
> the Atlas UI servers (atlas.ripe.net and *.atlas.ripe.net). We'll do this by
> automatically redirecting all http queries to their https equivalents.
> 
> This should not cause any changes to those of you who already use https by
> default, and should not cause any notable changes to anyone else. However,
> some clients (especially CLI based ones) may need some extra flags to deal
> with https connections.
> 
> Regards,
> Robert Kisteleki
>