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Department of Facilities web site changes...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Sherman)
Mon Aug 13 12:12:05 2001
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From: Michael Sherman <MSherman@PLANT.MIT.EDU>
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:08:48 -0400
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As you may already know, MIT's Information Systems is phasing out
support for web pages currently on tute.mit.edu. Because the
Department of Facilities has several pages that reference the
tute.mit.edu server, this change will impact web pages and forms that
the MIT community now uses.
Over the next few weeks, we will slowly migrate web pages from
"http://TUTE.MIT.EDU <http://tute.mit.edu/>" to <https://mit.edu/> (note the
"s" following "http").
It is important to note that any bookmarks and/or shortcuts you may have to
these pages will
no longer function. Also, MIT certificates will be needed to access
these updated pages. (For more details about certificates, please
view the online documentation at <http://web.mit.edu/is/cert>.) We
will notify the community as we execute new pages.
The first pages to go online as of Monday, August 13th, 2001 are the
following:
<https://web.mit.edu/facilities/www/custodial/forms/clean-req.html>
<https://web.mit.edu/facilities/www/custodial/forms/furn-req.html>
<https://web.mit.edu/facilities/www/custodial/forms/pest.html>
<https://web.mit.edu/facilities/www/sa/forms/instr.html>
Please let us know if you have any questions regarding these changes.
We appreciate your patience and cooperation during this process.
In addition, refer to the email below sent by Theresa Regan of I/S for more
details regarding this change.
Thank you.
Michael Sherman
Manager, Applications and Desktop Services Team
MIT Department of Facilities
and
Ruth Davis
Manager of Communications
MIT Department of Facilities
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From: Theresa M Regan [tregan@MIT.EDU]
Date: Monday, 14th May 2001
To: Members of the MIT Community
Subj: De-support Announcement for TUTE's web services
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"In order to provide a more consistent mechanism for secure
access to sensitive or MIT-only web pages, it is important to migrate
current references to "http://TUTE.MIT.EDU <http://tute.mit.edu/>" to
certificate-controlled
access via <https://mit.edu/>. Information Systems requests that all web
publishers begin planning for this change.
It is expected that the schedule for this transition will be
as follows: After September 30th, 2001, tute.mit.edu web server will
no longer be a supported service. The service itself will be
decommissioned no later than October 30th, 2001.
Moving to the use of certificates, which is already required
for a wide array of MIT services, will allow you to offer secure
access to members of the MIT community, when accessing from home,
office or through another Internet Service Provider (ISP) . The
newer campus web servers make certificate use easy, and these
machines are configured such that three powerful servers are
opposed to the single, antiquated machine "tute.mit.edu".
Additionally, the main web servers offer more capability and better
support for your web publishing needs.
In order to make the best resources available, and to provide
a more consistent security mechanism that works well for users on
campus and at home, we ask that web publishers migrate their
offerings to the main web servers as rapidly as possible. On-line
documentation is available at:
<http://web.mit.edu/cwis/web/htaccess-usage.shtml>
Web Communications Services, WCS, is available to assist with
any questions or concerns. Please write to web-help@mit.edu or call
x3-0101."
