[Labs-l] Fwd: Problem obtaining text via https after datacentre migration

[Bryan White]

>> >On 03/26/2014 05:18 PM, Bryan White wrote:
>> >> AWB fails, after recent changes in Labs server, to obtain text from
>> >> html's body from
>> >>
>> >> https://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/checkwiki.cgi?project
>> >>
>> >> Obtaining text via http works fine.
>> >>
>> >> Probably you need to fix something in the settings to re-allow https
>> access?
>> >
>> >That URL is working fine for me, and gives me a pretty table in http and
>> >https (and so is the one at the on-wiki bug report)
>> >
>> >Do you have a specific broken example or further details about what
>> >request fails?
>> >
>> >-- Marc
>>
>> When retrieving a list of articles from Checkwiki, it gives a "The
>> operation has timed out" error.  Access and Error web logs show no
>> connection from AWB to the webserver. Things were working fine on
>> March 14th and were not on March 18th.  I was sick in between those
>> dates and was not online.  No changes were made to AWB or Checkwiki
>> between those dates.   No problems have been reported when using a web
>> browser via https and I haven't seen any.  Other tools do retrieve
>> data from Checkwiki just fine, but they all use http.
>
>> Bryan
>>
>>
>Could it be a local DNS issue? I know for a period of time after the move
>my local ISP cached the old DNS info

When I do a nslookup at home, I get 208.80.155.131. This is the same
address I get on tools.  I'm not sure about the other people having
the same issue.

AWB is coded up in .NET.   Would a certificate change cause this?

Bryan