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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-09-28 11:27:52 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-09-28 11:27:52 -0400 |
| commit | 6fb6bcbcf57155fc7940ab4cea0ee390e4e211c7 (patch) | |
| tree | d6b5163db9533e513114c6b18456f92dbfce3149 /doc | |
| parent | ad6f3fa2e6e3b0e04d4831058b08ecd414076a97 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/importfeed_fails_when_using_the_option_--lazy_for_specific_podcast.mdwn | 30 |
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/importfeed_fails_when_using_the_option_--lazy_for_specific_podcast.mdwn b/doc/bugs/importfeed_fails_when_using_the_option_--lazy_for_specific_podcast.mdwn index 791c7b6dd..c1ccf86c2 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/importfeed_fails_when_using_the_option_--lazy_for_specific_podcast.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/importfeed_fails_when_using_the_option_--lazy_for_specific_podcast.mdwn @@ -41,3 +41,33 @@ git-annex importfeed --fast http://schoolsucksproject.com/category/podcast/feed/ unable to access url: http://schoolsucks.podomatic.com/enclosure/2013-09-16T10_10_06-07_00.mp3 failed ... + +> (There is no --lazy option. You seem to mean --fast.) +> +> This fine web server rejects the User-Agent used by curl: + +<pre> +joey@darkstar:~>curl http://schoolsucks.podomatic.com/enclosure/2013-09-18T20_40_40-07_00.mp3 +Forbidden +joey@darkstar:~>wget http://schoolsucks.podomatic.com/enclosure/2013-09-18T20_40_40-07_00.mp3 +--2013-09-28 11:18:36-- http://schoolsucks.podomatic.com/enclosure/2013-09-18T20_40_40-07_00.mp3 +Resolving schoolsucks.podomatic.com (schoolsucks.podomatic.com)... 38.99.42.46, 38.110.155.212 +Connecting to schoolsucks.podomatic.com (schoolsucks.podomatic.com)|38.99.42.46|:80... connected. +HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK +<pre> + +> git-annex always uses curl for checking file sizes. So the workaround +> is to use `git annex addurl --relaxed` on this url, which will skip +> the size check. However, if you only had curl installed, `git-annex get` +> would again try to use curl to get the file, and would still fail. +> It only happens to successfully download because git-annex chose +> to use wget and this site has apparently forgotten to block that. +> +> I don't know if it makes sense for git-annex to vary the user-agent +> to get around such (incredibly stupid) blocking. It could retry +> with a random user-agent, but that could be construed as abusive +> behavior; this site has asked us to go away. The only choices +> that seem really defensible would be to add a --user-agent +> switch, and/or to make git-annex set a default user agent header +> of "git-annex", rather than relying on the curl/wget defaults. +> --[[Joey]] |