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[–] T156@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Although, the nice thing about the new site is that the BoM website finally got around to enabling HTTPS support, instead of having a redirect that supported HTTPS telling you that the actual website didn't support HTTPS.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

I'll consider it modern when it supports HTTP/2 (which I think it does now) and IPv6.

I have no idea how you can build a brand new website on IPv4 in ${CURRENT_YEAR}.

[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The reg subdomain linked in the OP also supports HTTPS.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It does now, but it didn't used to.

They changed the old site to also allow HTTPS when it was updated.

[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

reg.bom.gov.au has existed for a few years at least and always had HTTPS as far as I can remember. The original HTTP site was just retired altogether from what I can tell.