Whenever the link is ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/...something... ... just try https://public.dhe.ibm.com/...something...
In this case, https://public.dhe.ibm.com/s390/holddata/full.txt works. - KB ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, November 8th, 2021 at 3:14 AM, Joel C. Ewing <jce.ebe...@cox.net> wrote: > There was a big push -- several years back now -- to encourage all web > > sites to change all pages to force access via https to make it much more > > difficult to perform man-in-the-middle phishing or data modification > > attacks, since it is difficult to get valid security certificates for a > > website domain name you don't control. The purpose of https is not just > > to encrypt data transferred, but to guarantee that all data you see is > > actually coming from the party that owns the certificates for the domain > > name you expect to be sending you data. > > I'm amazed IBM doesn't yet automatically convert http protocol to https > > on all their websites, and hasn't yet changed all published links from > > http to https. > > Just out of curiosity I tried > > https://service.software.ibm.com/holdata/390holddata.html , > > and it does actually work (good), but in Firefox you have to override an > > invalid security certificate (bad), because the certificate at the > > service.software.ibm.com website server is apparently only valid for > > domains www.aix.software.ibm.com and aix.software.ibm.com, not for > > service.software.ibm.com . Upon inspection, the certificate is > > obviously owned by IBM, so if you understand certificates you can feel > > confident that in this case a bad-certificate override is safe, but one > > should not be required to override security warnings. > > Maybe there are some obscure reasons IBM has to keep allowing http > > access, but an explicit https access should at least be correctly > > supported for all web content -- and that means having the proper > > security certificates in place. > > Joel C Ewing > > On 11/7/21 11:36, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 06:02:47 -0600, Barbara Nitz wrote: > > > > > my employer has decided that ftp is not allowed anymore anywhere. Today I > > > tried to download the newest holddata from > > > http://service.software.ibm.com/holdata/390holddata.html. The file I'm > > > interested in (full data, plain text) is a link to > > > ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/s390/holddata/full.txt. This is an ftp-Link, and > > > ftp is not allowed anywhere. I get a connection failed error, purely on > > > our side. So no holddata :-( > > > > > > Does anybody a link where these holddata are downloadable via http/s? > > > > I notice these are now available from: > > > > http://service.software.ibm.com/holdata/390holddata.html > > > > Last-Modified: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:10:34 GMT^M > > > > -- gil > > -- > > Joel C. Ewing > > ------------------ > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
