The USPTO (Patent and Trademark Office) has updated its Public Patent Application Information Retrieval (Public-PAIR) service so that it no longer supports HTTPS (secure) access. From the announcement with emphasis added:
Public PAIR Maintenance and Outage
The USPTO will be performing maintenance on the Public Patent Application Information Retrieval (Public Pair) beginning at 12:01 a.m., Friday, April 21 and ending at 2 a.m., Friday, April 21 ET.
During the maintenance period, Public PAIR will be unavailable.
Immediately after the maintenance, users will only be able to access Public PAIR through URLs beginning with HTTP, such as http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair. Past URLs using HTTPS to access Public Pair, such as https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, will no longer work.
Can anyone explain why there would be this seemingly backwards move to insecure communications?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24 2017, @08:07AM (3 children)
https://mp3-128.cdn107.com/music/09/47/41/0947411381.mp3 [cdn107.com]
OH GOOD
CDN107.com does HTTPS
BECAUSE IT MATTERS SO MUCH when my 1980s era broadcast radio tunes are SO ENCRYPTED BRO
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24 2017, @08:09AM (2 children)
Where's that cumfaced troll Eth to call me a cunt???
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday April 24 2017, @10:10AM (1 child)
He's with your mom?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24 2017, @11:53AM
No. That was me.