Bug#1033632: [External] Debian Bug #1033632 - SourceForge RSS feed rate limit
On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 12:15:56AM +0000, Paul Wise wrote:
> There are some improvements that we could make to QA services:
>
> * pass on HTTP error codes from services fakeupstream.cgi accesses
> * switch fakeupstream.cgi SourceForge support to using the RSS feed
> * switch fakeupstream.cgi/sf.php User-Agents to legitimate ones
* add caching to fakeupstream.cgi
>
> If anyone would like to work on these, please submit a merge requests.
> If no-one does these fixes, then I may get to them eventually.
>
> > > A different pattern from that address does hit RSS feeds and has no
> > > user agent.
>
> That is likely to be the regular SourceForge redirector.
That could be a candidate for integration into fakeupstream.cgi.
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
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