Has the Treasury Direct interface changed?

[John Ralls]

> On Dec 28, 2017, at 10:26 AM, farleykj <farleykj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I did try this. The only effect from changing it is to get a different number
> at the end of the failure message, i.e. it goes from
> 
> "Can't connect to www.treasurydirect.gov:80 (Connection refused)"
> 
> to
> 
> "Can't connect to www.treasurydirect.gov:443 (Connection refused)"
> 
> This is rather mysterious problem....

How exactly are you trying to connect? 
I just tried 
  curl -o treasurydirect https://www.treasurydirect.gov/TA_WS/securities/auctioned?format=json&type=FRN
and got back a 437K JSON dump.

Regards,
John Ralls