Dear Lutz,
I am a Debian developer who packages a FOSS software hosted at
berlios.de. As a part of packaging, we use a convenience tool named
uscan which checks the upstream page for available new versions.
Since some time ago, berlios's website is not allowing the tool to use
its native Agent string ("Debian uscan 2.9.27") and forbids the access.
Is there a chance to adjust web server configuration to allow uscan to
access the pages? If it is not of your responsibility, could you
please forward this request to appropriate person?
For the reference and examples of invocation please see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=397354
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=409137
Thank you in advance for your help
Cheers
Yarik
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> I am sorry if I am trying to wake up a dead issue, but
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:17:29AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > > I think there are 2 problems:
> > > - Berlios apparently rejects based on User-Agent.
> > Fixed in 2.9.24, I believe.
> Indeed there is a changelog entry:
> * uscan: set HTTP user agent name (Closes: #397354)
> and current 2.9.27 version of uscan has:
> $user_agent->agent('Debian uscan 2.9.27');
> and my uscan fails with:
> ,---
> | -- In debian/watch, processing watchfile line:
> | opts=downloadurlmangle=s/prdownload/download/ http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7729 http://prdownload.berlios.de/keyjnotegui/keyjnotegui-(.*).tar.bz2
> | uscan warning: In watchfile debian/watch, reading webpage
> | http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7729 failed: 403 Forbidden
> `---
> so imho issue persists since berlios seems to don't allow uscan as the
> agent effectively bringing #397354 back alive:
> ,---
> | *$> lynx -dump 'http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7729' | head -3
> | [1]BerliOS : [2]DevCounter [3]WebCalendar [4]Developer
> | [5]SourceAgency [6]SourceLines [7]Partners [8]Contact Us
> | $> lynx -useragent='Debian uscan 2.9.27' -dump 'http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7729'
> | Warning: User-Agent string does not contain "Lynx" or "L_y_n_x"!
> | Forbidden
> | You don't have permission to access /project/showfiles.php on this
> | server.
> | _________________________________________________________________
> | Apache/1.3.34 Server at developer.berlios.de Port 80
> `---
> P.S. Sorry for an extensive list of Addressees -- just wanted to
> follow-up on existing thread/issue.
--
Yaroslav Halchenko
Research Assistant, Psychology Department, Rutgers-Newark
Student Ph.D. @ CS Dept. NJIT
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