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OFAC Website to Undergo Maintenance Jan. 12

The Office of Foreign Assets Control announced (here) that it will implement “HTTP Strict Transport Security” headers on Treasury.gov on Jan. 12 during an “evening maintenance window.” The action will affect users of OFAC’s Sanctions List Data Files, though no…

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downtime associated with the change is anticipated, OFAC said. However, the change will affect several domains and sub-domains, and will force users to the “HTTPS site,” while not allowing browsers to redirect from HTTP to HTTPS. This could impact scripts users have developed to poll Treasury.gov for data, OFAC said.