What's Changing?
In order to improve our ability to distribute content globally across the world, SCORM Cloud will no longer support HTTPS connections from browsers or other platforms that do not support SNI. This change will be effective on September 26th 2016.
What is SNI Support?
Server Name Indication (SNI) is an extension to the transport layer security (TLS) that allows secure web servers to host multiple secure socket layer (SSL) certificates from the same internet protocol (IP) address. Modern browsers and platforms support SNI, but older systems that connect to a system utilizing SNI will likely have certificate validation errors.
Who's Impacted?
Unless you or your clients still use older browsers or platforms, you are unlikely to be affected. Based our traffic analysis, we estimate only 0.14% of our API customers and 0.22% of our customers client browsers will be impacted by this change. A full list of clients that support SNI can be found below. If you are using an unsupported system, the only option outside of upgrading your systems will be to discontinue HTTPS connections to SCORM Cloud and rely solely on HTTP.
| Software | Type | SNI Support | Notes | Supported since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internet Explorer | Web browser | Yes | Since version 7 on Vista (not supported on XP) | 2006 |
| Mozilla Firefox | Web browser | Yes | Since version 2.0 | 2006 |
| cURL | Command-line tool and library | Yes | Since version 7.18.1 | 2008 |
| Safari | Web browser | Yes | Not supported on XP | |
| Google Chrome | Web browser | Yes | Since 6.0 | 2010 |
| BlackBerry 10 | Web browser | Yes | Supported in all BB10 releases | 2013 |
| BlackBerry OS | Web browser | No | Not supported in 7.1 or earlier | |
| Windows Mobile | Web browser | Yes | Some time after 6.5 | |
| Android default browser | Web browser | Yes | Honeycomb (3.x) for tablets and Ice Cream Sandwich (4.x) for phones | 2011 |
| wget | Command-line tool | Yes | Since version 1.14 | 2012 |
| Nokia Browser for Symbian | Web browser | No | ||
| Opera Mobile for Symbian | Web browser | No | Not supported on Series60 | |
| IBM HTTP Server | Web server | No | ||
| Apache Tomcat | Web server | Yes | Not supported before 8.5 (backport from 9) | |
| Apache HTTP Server | Web server | Yes | Since version 2.2.12 | 2009 |
| Microsoft IIS | Web server | Yes | Since version 8 | 2012 |
| nginx | Web server | Yes | Since version 0.5.23 | 2007 |
| Jetty | Web server | Yes | Since version 9.3.0 | 2015 |
| Qt | Library | Yes | Since version 4.8 | 2011 |
| Mozilla NSS server side | Library | No | ||
| 4th Dimension | Library | No | Not supported in 15.2 or earlier | |
| Java | Library | Yes | Since version 1.7 | 2011 |
| Erlang | Library | Yes | Since version r17 | 2013 |
| Go | Library | Yes | Since version 1.4 | 2011 |
| Perl | Library | Yes | Since Net::SSLeay version 1.50 and IO::Socket::SSL version 1.56 |
2012 |
| PHP | Library | Yes | Since version 5.6 | 2014 |
| Python | Library | Yes | Supported in 2.x from 2.7.9rc1 and 3.x from 3.2alpha4 (in ssl, urllib[2] and httplib modules) |
2011 for Python 3.x and 2014 for Python 2.x |
| Ruby | Library | Yes | Since version 2.0 (in net/http) |
2011 |
Reference (wikipedia)
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