Can't reach dev.gnupg.org

Steffen Nurpmeso steffen at sdaoden.eu
Thu Jan 15 19:29:00 CET 2026


Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
 <20260115180713.83Dhz6c7 at steffen%sdaoden.eu>:
 |Jacob Bachmeyer via Gnupg-devel wrote in
 | <4c31b086-e349-4ad2-9474-a16f647772e7 at gmail.com>:
 ||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-dev\
 ||> \
 ||> el:
 ||>> 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.
 |
 |That is utter nonsense.

Unfortunately, that is to say!

For example the wonderful people behind .repo.or.cz just
implemented a special user agent bypass so that packagers can
download balls again; just last week, i have not updated the port
again, so i have not tried it in practice.  However the
"--user-agent=lynx" "bypass" that worked for a month stopped
working last week.  So..

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)



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