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+[[!meta title="New features on scripts.mit.edu"]]
+If you develop websites on scripts.mit.edu, we thought you might
+like to hear about some of the new little features we’ve quietly
+developed over the last year.
+
+-   You can now access your website from
+    **yourname.scripts.mit.edu** instead of
+    http://scripts.mit.edu/\~yourname. The new URLs are easier to type
+    and more secure against cross-site scripting attacks. On
+    https://yourname.scripts.mit.edu, current web browsers (supporting
+    [SNI](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication)) will
+    receive a valid SSL certificate for \*.scripts.mit.edu. This also
+    works for group lockers.
+-   Setting up **certificate authentication** on scripts is easier
+    than ever. Just [add three lines to your .htaccess file](/faq/15),
+    and your visitors will be automatically redirected to port 444,
+    which accepts optional client certificates. Visitors without
+    certificates will be shown a friendly error page (which you can
+    customize if you want). You can restrict access by user, AFS group,
+    or other standard Apache authorization modules.
+-   A new Apache module supports **optional authentication**. If
+    you add
+        AuthSSLCertAuthoritative off
+        AuthOptional on
+
+    to your .htaccess file, then the Apache authorization process will
+    be bypassed, so that your script can perform authorization itself,
+    and treat authenticated users differently from anonymous users
+    (which will have the `REMOTE_USER` variable unset).
+-   You can now install **Python modules** into your locker using
+    `easy_install --user` from the scripts servers, and they will be
+    automatically accessible to Python scripts in your locker.
+-   nelhage has made the **Jifty web framework** for Perl available
+    in the [jifty locker](http://jifty.scripts.mit.edu/) for
+    scripts.mit.edu as well as Athena and Debathena.
+
+
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