On 13 November 2013 17:56, François Lacombe <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was wondering if it's possible to send HTTPS requests to Nominatim service? > https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search doesn't answer. >
Currently HTTPS is not offered for nominatim.openstreetmap.org Nominatim serves over 100 requests per second and we do not yet have the hardware resources to offer HTTPS. Technical: While easy enough to enable, the server is already heavily CPU loaded. The server uses Xeon 56xx CPUs with the AES instruction set but the SSL connection setup / key-exchange is still expensive. The nature of requests on nominatim is that most requests will start a new connection setup. We are planning to get another server for nominatim in the next few months. (redundancy / easier maintenance / spread load) Regards Grant Part of OSM sysadmin team. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
