[ncc-announce] [news] RIPE NCC website becoming HTTPS-only

Dear colleagues,

We plan to make the www.ripe.net website available over HTTPS only as of 
5 February 2015. We believe this change will provide a more secure, 
efficient website for our users.

Regular visitors to the website will not notice any change (other than 
"https://" in the website’s URL). A small number of users running 
scripts against the website could potentially be affected, and may need 
to update their scripts to run over HTTPS instead of HTTP. Those using 
very old and unsupported browser versions (such as Internet Explorer 6 
running on Windows XP) may no longer be able to access the website.

The www.ripe.net website has been available over HTTPS for some time 
already, and we are now making it HTTPS-only for two reasons: to improve 
the website’s security, and because we plan to integrate RIPE NCC Access 
(our single sign-on system) with www.ripe.net as part of our larger 
website redesign project, which requires us to use HTTPS throughout the 
site.

If you have any questions or comments, please let me know.

Regards,
-- 
Mihnea-Costin Grigore
RIPE NCC Web Services Team Leader - http://www.ripe.net/