----- Original Message ----- > From: "coolhandluke via Outages" <[email protected]>
> > -We're wondering what happened yesterday to break all these > > disparate > > websites > note that this is *by design*, as sean pointed out. > > the "fix" is simple: don't use https on www.irs.gov. any ssl pages > served by the irs as served on different hostnames. > > as to why your users just started it, nfi. my best guess is that they > weren't using https previously. Well, "more people may be using HTTPS-Anywhere" may have something to do with it. Or, it might be that some new browser release just enabled HTTP/2.0, which in many implementations *requires* SSL and might also trip this, as noted in a posting on the topic which I just inadvertantly posted to this same mailing list 5 minutes ago. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
