Can't reach dev.gnupg.org

[Collin Funk]

Jacob Bachmeyer via Gnupg-devel <gnupg-devel at gnupg.org> writes:

> On 1/14/26 11:22, Bernhard Reiter via Gnupg-devel wrote:
>> Am Mittwoch 14 Januar 2026 15:17:22 schrieb Jeffrey Walton via Gnupg-devel:
>>> Related, some free and open source projects are using Anubis
>>> <https://anubis.techaro.lol/> to keep most of the beggars off.  The
>>> Anubis source code is shared on GitHub.
>> It needs javascript enabled in the browser, AFAIK.
>
> As I understand, there is now a no-JS option (it tests whether the
> browser will follow a META redirect and present a cookie, which
> (AFIAK) every version of Mozilla supported, even before JavaScript
> existed).  Anubis also only challenges clients that claim to be
> "Mozilla" in the User-Agent string.  All others (such as "wget")
> simply pass.

The meta-refresh challenges aren't perfect. Sourceware had to use
javascript challenges for ~2 weeks at the end of December into early
January [1] [2]. At that time gnu.org was down a lot too, which is
interesting. Christmas bots?

Collin

[1] https://mastodon.social/@sourceware@fosstodon.org/115731990044151990
[2] https://mastodon.social/@sourceware@fosstodon.org/115838999997172671