[OAI-implementers] Should OAI-PMH over HTTPS be permitted?

[Roy Tennant]

At least two sites are registered at UIUC with HTTPS data providers:

<https://kb.osu.edu/dspace-oai/request?verb=Identify>
<https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/tspace-oai?verb=Identify>

both DSpace sites.
Roy Tennant

On Feb 16, 2005, at 8:40 AM, Simeon Warner wrote:

>
> There has been some interest recently in using OAI-PMH over HTTPS [1].  
> The
> OAI-PMH specification [2] mentions only operation over HTTP, so I think
> that at present HTTP must be used to conform to the specification (and
> this is enforced by the validation/registration site). The  
> specification
> should be explicit about whether the use of HTTPS is conforming or not.
>
> It would be trivial to extend the specification to permit the use of  
> HTTPS
> as it is just standard HTTP operating over an additional security  
> layer.
> There would be no need to change the semantics or syntax beyond the
> substitution of 'https://' for 'http://'. Permitting HTTPS would have  
> no
> implications for data-providers unless they wished to use the protocol.
> The main implication of permitting HTTPS would be that harvesters would
> have to support HTTPS in addition to HTTP (or else be unable to harvest
> from some data-providers). In many programming environments there are
> libraries that provide seamless support for both HTTPS and HTTP (e.g.  
> in
> Perl, HTTPS comes for free in LWP) but this may not be true in all  
> cases.
>
> Who is using or would like to use HTTPS?
>
> Which harvesters already support HTTPS or could easily do so?
>
> Which harvesters could not easily support HTTPS?
>
> Cheers,
> Simeon
>
>
> [1] http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2818.txt
> [2]  
> http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/ 
> openarchivesprotocol.htm#HTTPembedding
>
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