https in Stata 13

[Sergiy Radyakin]

Just wanted to ask why is the response content different when I run query on a web service via https?

I obviously would like to receive the same content as the browser.

Don't know if it is related, but about a year ago I have reported an issue with https redirection problem:
http://www.statalist.org/forums/foru...ion-ebola-data

Perhaps this is fixed already in Stata 14?

Thank you, Sergiy Radyakin

[James Hassell (StataCorp)]

The issue Sergiy Radyakin described exists in both Stata 13 and Stata 14. We have looked into the problem and it appears to be triggered by the content buffer containing less than 100 bytes. We will get it fixed in both Stata 13 and Stata 14 and make it available through normal Stata updates.

This is not the same as the redirection issue Sergiy Radyakin mentioned.

[Sergiy Radyakin]

Dear James, thank you very much for looking into this!

In the meanwhile I have also contacted random.org and received the following response (among other helpful recommendations):

The move towards encrypting all web traffic has been happening for a while across the Internet, and in line with this, we felt it was no longer appropriate for us to support unencrypted traffic.

This certainly makes sense especially given that this is a web service that assumes certain discipline of use, quotas for queries, and payment options.

This also means that the only way for me to fix -truernd- is to wait for the fix in Stata and then switch the protocol to https in all my URLs in truernd.ado.

Thank you, Sergiy