Upcoming OASIS website downtime June 2-3

In order to improve website security, the OASIS
website will be offline beginning at 6:00 PM EDT Saturday, June 2.  The
site will remain offline through Sunday June 3.

 

As part of the upgrade, OASIS sites that
accept member passwords will be secured with SSL/TLS.   Specific
sites affected are:

·
www.oasis-open.org

·
tools.oasis-open.org (JIRA,
Subversion)

·
wiki.oasis-open.org

·
lists.oasis-open.org

After the upgrade, all requests to
the formerly insecure (http://) versions of these sites will be
redirected to secure sites.  For instance, all requests to http://www.oasis-open.org/...  will be redirected to https://www.oasis-open.org/... .

In addition to the obvious security improvement these changes deliver to all
members, there are two impact areas some members will need to be aware of:

 

1. New Security Warning messages while browsing
the OASIS website:

 

Details vary among browser products but
most browsers can be configured to provide warnings when a user browses from a
secure site (https://) to an insecure site (http://) and vice versa.
 Users with browser configurations that provide such warnings will begin
to see them when browsing the affected OASIS sites.  

 

Browsers provide "mixed
content" warnings when a page loaded from a secure site loads certain
resources (e.g. _javascript_, css) over an insecure connection. Users who see
such warnings when browsing the affected OASIS sites after the upgrade should
clear their browser cache.  Check the documentation for your particular
browser for details.

 

2. Broken working copies of SVN version
controlled documents

 

After the upgrade, working copies of TC
subversion repositories created using repository URLs of the form http://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/svn/<tc-abbrevation>/... will no longer function properly.
   Subversion commands invoked in such working copies will result in
the following error message.

 

svn: Repository moved temporarily to 'https://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/svn/<tc-abbrevation>/... please relocate

 

To "relocate" an existing working
copy, execute the following Subversion command 

 

svn switch --relocate http https

 

Note that this command can be invoked from any
directory in  a working copy directory tree but the https
"relocation"  is performed  only on that directory and
 any subdirectories, therefore it  is recommended to invoke this
command once from the top-level directory of a working copy.  

Regards,

   -greg

-- 
Greg Carpenter
Director of Technology



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