Fixed access to Sesar and Geochron apis

pom.xml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <groupId>org.cirdles</groupId>
     <artifactId>ET_Redux</artifactId>
     <name>ET_Redux</name>
-    <version>3.6.90</version>
+    <version>3.6.91</version>
     <description>Successor to U-Pb_Redux</description>
     <url>https://cirdles.org</url>
     <inceptionYear>2006</inceptionYear>
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.thoughtworks.xstream</groupId>
             <artifactId>xstream</artifactId>
-            <version>1.4.14</version>
+            <version>1.4.15</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>javax.help</groupId>

src/main/java/org/earthtime/archivingTools/URIHelper.java

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.URLConnection;
+import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
 import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
 import javax.xml.XMLConstants;
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
@@ -64,6 +65,45 @@ public class URIHelper {
     public URIHelper() {
     }
 
+    /**
+     *
+     * @param fileURI
+     * @return
+     */
+    public static InputStream getInputStreamFromHttpsURI(String fileURI) {
+        URL url;
+        HttpsURLConnection urlConn = null;
+
+        InputStream retval = null;
+        try {
+
+            url = new URL(fileURI);
+
+            urlConn = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();
+
+            urlConn.setDoInput(true);
+            urlConn.setUseCaches(false);
+            // Feb 2021 started throwing 403 so used advice from
+            // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13670692/403-forbidden-with-java-but-not-web-browser
+            urlConn.setRequestProperty(
+                    "User-Agent",
+                    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.95 Safari/537.11");
+
+            // july 2019
+            urlConn.setConnectTimeout(10000);
+            urlConn.setReadTimeout(10000);
+
+            retval = urlConn.getInputStream();
+
+        } catch (IOException iOException) {
+//            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,
+//                    new String[]{"Error reaching server: "//
+//                        + iOException.getMessage()});
+        }
+
+        return retval;
+    }
+
     /**
      *
      * @param fileURI
@@ -137,7 +177,13 @@ public static BufferedReader getBufferedReader(String filename)
         Reader inReader = null;
 
         try {
-            if (filename.startsWith("http")) {
+            if (filename.startsWith("https")) {
+                try {
+                    inReader = new InputStreamReader(getInputStreamFromHttpsURI(filename));
+                    reader = new BufferedReader(inReader);
+                } catch (Exception e) {
+                }
+            } else if (filename.startsWith("http")) {
                 try {
                     inReader = new InputStreamReader(getInputStreamFromURI(filename));
                     reader = new BufferedReader(inReader);

src/main/java/org/earthtime/dataDictionaries/SampleRegistries.java

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ public enum SampleRegistries {
     /**
      *
      */
-    GeochronID( "GeochronID", "GCH", "http://www.geochron.org/igsnexists.php?igsn=");//    "http://www.geochronid.org/display.php?geochronid=" ),
+    GeochronID( "GeochronID", "GCH", "https://www.geochron.org/igsnexists.php?igsn=");//    "http://www.geochronid.org/display.php?geochronid=" ),
 
 
     //EARTHTIME_ID( "EARTHTIME-ID", "ERT", "" );

src/test/java/org/earthtime/dataDictionaries/SampleRegistriesTest.java

@@ -44,13 +44,13 @@ public class SampleRegistriesTest {
      */
     @Test
     public void test_constructor_0(){
-	System.out.println("Testing SampleRegistries's enumerations and getters.");
+	System.out.println("Testing SampleRegistries' enumerations and getters.");
         //Tests if values are correct for all enumerations, and tests the getters as well. You cannot instantiate new inumerations.
 
         SampleRegistries ave=SampleRegistries.GeochronID;
         assertEquals("GeochronID",ave.getName());
         assertEquals("GCH",ave.getCode());
-        assertEquals("http://www.geochron.org/igsnexists.php?igsn=",ave.getConnectionString());
+        assertEquals("https://www.geochron.org/igsnexists.php?igsn=",ave.getConnectionString());
 
         ave=SampleRegistries.SESAR;
         assertEquals("SESAR",ave.getName());