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Technical Implementation Notice 11-31

National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC

200 PM Wed EDT Jul 13 2011

To: Subscribers:

Family of Services

NOAA Weather Wire Service

Emergency Managers Weather Information Network

NOAAPort

Other NWS partners and employees

From: Cynthia Abelman Chief, Aviation Services Branch

Subject: Implementing Security Improvements to Aviation Weather

Websites Effective August 16, 2011.

Effective Tuesday, August 16, 2011, at 1500 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Aviation Weather Center will implement IT security improvements to www.aviationweather.gov and www.aviationweather.gov/adds websites. These improvements will be transparent to most users; however, anyone who uses automated scripts to access and retrieve data from these websites will need to make minor changes to the URL address.

Previously users could access both www.aviationweather.gov and www.aviationweather.gov/adds without placing the "www" at the beginning of the URL. With the security changes being implemented, access to these websites will require the use of "www"in the URL.

If you have any questions about this change, please contact:
 

David Bright

Chief, Aviation Support Branch

Aviation Weather Center

Kansas City, MO 64153

816-584-7204

david.bright@noaa.gov

National Technical Implementation Notices are online at:

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notif.htm

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