[IPT] IPT new version 2.3.4

Julien Cigar julien at perdition.city
Tue Mar 14 14:45:27 CET 2017


On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 12:23:06PM +0100, Matthew Blissett wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> The IPT has changed from accessing the GBIF registry over a non-secure 
> HTTP connection, to using a secure HTTPS connection. If there is a 
> firewall between your IPT server and the internet, you may need to ask 
> for access through it for secure connections.
> 
> On the Ubuntu (or other Linux) server, first verify that you can see the 
> registry over a non-secure HTTP connection using this command:
> 
>      curl http://gbrds.gbif-uat.org/
> 
> There should be some HTML, ending with "You have connected to the GBRDS 
> API!", and it should appear quickly -- typically in less than a second.
> 
> Then try again, but with a secure (https) connection:
> 
>      curl https://gbrds.gbif-uat.org/
> 
> You should see the same result.  If you do not, you probably need to ask 
> the system administrator to open port 443 on the firewall for you.
> 
> 
> On a Windows server, you can check both URLs using a web browser.
> 
> 
> On both Linux and Windows, if you can see the HTTPS page but the IPT 
> still doesn't work, check you are using Java 8.  Java 7 and earlier do 
> not support the newer encryption standards.
> 
> I've updated the IPT FAQ with this information: 
> https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/FAQ.wiki#7-what-outgoing-connections-does-the-ipt-make
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Matt

I haven't upgraded yet, but maybe the issue is that some Java library is
querying the GBIF gbrds through HTTPS but the public certificate from 
the CA (COMODO CA Limited) is missing

> 
> 
> On 13/03/17 23:21, Marie Elise Lecoq wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I tried to update the IPT that we used for training (test mode) with 
> > the new version that Kyle sent and I got the same error than Marta.
> > For information, I work with Tomcat 7 and java 8. I'm running the IPT 
> > on Ubuntu 14.04.
> >
> > You will find attached the log of the error.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help !
> > Best regards,
> > Marie
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:52 AM, CALDENTEY Marta 
> > <MCALDENTEY at mincyt.gob.ar <mailto:MCALDENTEY at mincyt.gob.ar>> wrote:
> >
> >     Dear Kyle,
> >
> >     We have tried to upgrade our UAT environment and we get the
> >     following error.
> >
> >     We also tried to request to https://gbrds.gbif-uat.org
> >     <https://gbrds.gbif-uat.org> but we have no answer.
> >
> >     Is this environment working?
> >
> >     Kind regards,
> >
> >     Marta
> >
> >
> >     Ing. Marta B. Caldentey
> >
> >     Direccion de Sistemas de Informacion
> >
> >     Mincyt
> >
> >     Int 1014
> >
> >
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