Will it mean projects will run both http and https or just one of those two. Some users cannot make always make https connections through firewalls so I was wondering if it was a user choice or a project choice that was envisaged for core clients.

Regards
Ian

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Aren't the only projects using https those Japanese projects that we couldn't run before because our BOINC client differed from the one they used?

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I think that was one of the reasons it was added to the baseline so that they could start to use the stock client software instead of a "hacked" one ... also, to increase the security of the system as a whole ...

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Interesting fellas...but what was the answer again?

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At the moment, 5.1.x can do both. If that's your preferred answer. ;)

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At the moment, 5.1.x can do both. If that's your preferred answer. ;)

[blood and stone come to mind]

So....have 5.1.x users had a choice to use https or did the project tell what should happen?

Thanks 8-))
Ian

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Give me the link to any of those Japanese projects and I'll tell you. ;)

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Thanks for the info.
l8r

Ian

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The Japanese projects use a special version of the Boinc version two server and client software. The only way to connect to them would be to compile your own boinc version of the current software but change the version number to two. However, this would would prevent you from running any other projects as most of them require a minimum version four client.

Tigher wrote

Interesting fellas...but what was the answer again?

Deep Thought wrote

The Ultimate Answer
According to the Hitchhiker's Guide, researchers from a pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent race of beings, construct Deep Thought, the second greatest computer of all time and space, to calculate the Ultimate Answer. After seven and a half million years of pondering the question, Deep Thought provides the answer: " forty-two".
"Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"
"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer.

Couldn't pass up the chance.

K.

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