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<p>Aloha! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!</p>
<p>While setting up a new workstation, it seems I failed to get
osis2mod installed when I thought I did. Consequently, with my
last rebuild of the Bible sites, instead of updating Sword
modules, their contents got deleted. The process is running again
to rebuild all modules from the latest source files, which should
be completed within 24 hours if all goes well.</p>
<p>Also of note, due to a bad case of bit rot, I have shut down use
of my ftp server EXCEPT for the Sword repository. By bit rot, I
mean that all major browsers have now dropped support for FTP for
(valid) security reasons. This made people think that the ftp site
was down when it actually was. Telling people to use Filezilla or
a command line FTP client instead is a pretty user hostile
approach, so I changed all of my internal links to https links
instead. I strongly recommend that everyone support HTTPS for
Sword repositories at your earliest convenience. For now, I'll
support both HTTPS and FTP, but they are on separate machines, and
the HTTPS server is much faster. (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="ftp://ftp.ebible.org/sword/" moz-do-not-send="true">ftp://ftp.ebible.org/sword/</a>
vs. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://ebible.org/sword/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://ebible.org/sword/</a>).
HTTP instead of HTTPS should work, now, too, but Google and others
are trying to strongly encourage replacing HTTP with HTTPS. Of
course the People's Republic of China has been known to block
HTTPS but not HTTP sometimes, because they want to see what
traffic contains so they can censor it more effectively.<br>
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<p><font color="#000000">Aloha,<br>
<b><big><i>Michael Johnson</i></big></b></font><b><br>
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