SoylentNews

Earlier tonight, I modified our varnish rules to redirect all traffic to https://soylentnews.org if they came in as plain HTTP. Unfortunately, due to dropping SSLv3 support to prevent POODLE attacks, IE6 clients will no longer be able to reach SoylentNews. If this seriously inconveniences a large number of users, we may go through the trouble of whitelisting IE6 to drop down to HTTP only.

In addition, I applied an experimental update to production to try and clear as many errors as possible from the Apache error logs, in an attempt to continue isolating any remaining bugs and slowdowns. I also ripped out more dead code related to FireHose, Achievements, and Tags. As such, site performance appears to roughly be back to where it should be, and I have yet to see any 500 errors post-upgrade (though I concede that said update has only been up for about 2 hours at this point).

Tor traffic is set to bypass HTTPS due to the fact there is no way to prevent a self-signed certificate warning, and by design, tor both encrypts and authenticates hosts when connecting to them. A few lingering issues with the tor proxy were fixed with most recent code push, and the onion site should be back to functioning normally

P.S. I'm aware that the site is generating warnings due to the fact we use a SHA-1 based certificate. We will be changing out the certificate as soon as reasonably possible.