- From: Taft, Rob R <rtaft@navisite.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 02:52:09 +0000
- To: Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org>, Simon Hanna <Simon.Hanna@aeb.com>, "Taft, Rob R" <rtaft@navisite.com>
- CC: "site-comments@w3.org" <site-comments@w3.org>
I can reach it now. On March 8, 2019 5:34:46 PM Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org> wrote: > Hi Simon, Rob, > > * Simon Hanna <Simon.Hanna@aeb.com> [2019-03-08 12:16+0000] >> Hi, >> >> We are experiencing serious issues because our software is >> trying to download XSD files hosted by w3.org, but isn’t being >> redirected from http to https. >> >> I’m not sure why you are not redirecting http traffic to https. >> TBH I’m unsure how this used to work, we just found out today, >> that our systems no longer work… >> >> Would be nice if you added the redirect (back) > > We do not redirect these resources from http to https, because > some old clients can not handle https. > > We haven't made any recent changes to the way we serve these > resources, but we received three similar reports like this in a > short time frame today so I suspect our upstream network provider > was doing some kind of DDoS protection that impacted certain > networks but not others. > > Can you confirm if you are able to access our site over port 80 > now? If you are still unable to retrieve xsd files could you > please try http://www.w3.org/ or http://www.w3.org/robots.txt ? > > To avoid issues like this in the future I recommend using an HTTP > cache or XML catalog when requesting XSD files from other sites. > For more info please see > https://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2008/02/08/w3c_s_excessive_dtd_traffic/ > > -- > Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org> > http://www.w3.org/People/Gerald/
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