On Wednesday, 22 October 2014 the ECaccess gateway at ECMWF (ecaccess.ecmwf.int) has been upgraded to fix a serious SSL security vulnerability.
As a result, the ECaccess webToolkit version 4.0.1 stopped working via the ecaccess.ecmwf.int gateway. Older versions of the tools are not affected nor is version 4.0.1 if used via your local gateway.
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