Re: Question about downloads

Georgiy Tugai <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:39:00 +0100
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Hi Robert,

This should be resolved now; I've added suitable rules to the Anubis configuration, which should allow any project's users to request tarballs. Sorry for the disruption!

Regards,
Georgiy

On 18/11/2025 21:16, Robert Goldman wrote:
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> I just got an issue in the ASDF repo <https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf/-/issues/171> where a user reports that the Anubis prevents software from downloading ASDF tarballs.
>
> In our documentation for the project, we tell the users to grab https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf/-/archive/3.3.7/asdf-3.3.7.tar.gz But if you do that with |curl| or |wget|, you get an HTML page instead of the desired tarball.
>
> Is it possible to put a tarball somewhere that it can be automatically retrieved? Or is this impossible with the new flooding protection? In which case we would need to figure out some other way to provide tarballs and other binary blobs.
>
> Thanks,
> R
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    <p>Hi Robert,</p>
    <p>This should be resolved now; I've added suitable rules to the
      Anubis configuration, which should allow any project's users to
      request tarballs. Sorry for the disruption!</p>
    <p>Regards,<br>
      Georgiy</p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/11/2025 21:16, Robert Goldman
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          <p dir="auto">I just got <a
href="https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf/-/issues/171"
              style="color: #3983C4;" moz-do-not-send="true">an issue in
              the ASDF repo</a> where a user reports that the Anubis
            prevents software from downloading ASDF tarballs.</p>
          <p dir="auto">In our documentation for the project, we tell
            the users to grab <a
href="https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf/-/archive/3.3.7/asdf-3.3.7.tar.gz"
              style="color: #3983C4;" moz-do-not-send="true"
              class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf/-/archive/3.3.7/asdf-3.3.7.tar.gz</a>
            But if you do that with <code
style="margin: 0 0; padding: 0 0.25em; border-radius: 3px; background-color: #F7F7F7;">curl</code>
            or <code
style="margin: 0 0; padding: 0 0.25em; border-radius: 3px; background-color: #F7F7F7;">wget</code>,
            you get an HTML page instead of the desired tarball.</p>
          <p dir="auto">Is it possible to put a tarball somewhere that
            it can be automatically retrieved? Or is this impossible
            with the new flooding protection? In which case we would
            need to figure out some other way to provide tarballs and
            other binary blobs.</p>
          <p dir="auto">Thanks,<br>
            R</p>
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