OAI-PMH and https

Eldorado Administrator

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Jul 21, 2020, 9:43:30 AM7/21/20

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Hello,

we are in the process up updating our OAI data provider URL as the
university has changed its name and domain.

In the OAI-PMH specification http is listed in the examples. Can one use
https too? Seen a couple of registered data providers which use https.
Are there any drawbacks?

A test validation succeeds with

"Uses https URIs (not specified in protocol)"

Thanks and stay save and healthy

Claudia Jürgen

Thomas Dowling

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Jul 21, 2020, 11:36:22 AM7/21/20

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I believe the original standard specified HTTP (was that twenty years ago?), but today there are many repositories that provide OAI-PMH only over HTTPS.

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Simeon Warner

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Jul 29, 2020, 10:59:22 AM7/29/20

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Yes, as Thomas says, the original protocol said that http URIs must be used but the world has moved on since then. The validator was modified a while ago to accept https URIs and it looks like your data provider is fine!