Re: GIT repo inaccessible

Simon Arlott via Exim-dev <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:37:30 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exim.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
This kind of automated blocking isn't helpful:

$ wget https://code.exim.org/exim/exim/commit/e742c93d7876.patch
--2026-04-19 17:34:00--  
https://code.exim.org/exim/exim/commit/e742c93d7876.patch
Resolving code.exim.org (code.exim.org)... 2a00:1940:2:3::2:16, 
85.158.153.16
Connecting to code.exim.org (code.exim.org)|2a00:1940:2:3::2:16|:443... 
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 503 Service Unavailable
2026-04-19 17:34:01 ERROR 503: Service Unavailable.

$ curl https://code.exim.org/exim/exim/commit/e742c93d7876.patch
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>503 Service Unavailable</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Service Unavailable</h1>
<p>The server is temporarily unable to service your
request due to maintenance downtime or capacity
problems. Please try again later.</p>
</body></html>

$ wget https://code.exim.org/exim/exim/commit/e742c93d7876.patch -U 
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:143.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/143.0"
--2026-04-19 17:35:23--  
https://code.exim.org/exim/exim/commit/e742c93d7876.patch
Resolving code.exim.org (code.exim.org)... 2a00:1940:2:3::2:16, 
85.158.153.16
Connecting to code.exim.org (code.exim.org)|2a00:1940:2:3::2:16|:443... 
failed: Connection refused.
Connecting to code.exim.org (code.exim.org)|85.158.153.16|:443... 
failed: Connection refused.

-- 
Simon Arlott