### Please describe the problem. importfeed responds with "failed" when using the option --lazy for specific podcast and no symbolic links get created. However when I don't use the --fast option the podcast enclosures do download and links get created as expected. ### What steps will reproduce the problem? git-annex importfeed --fast http://schoolsucksproject.com/category/podcast/feed/ ### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? Ubuntu git-annex version: 4.20130802-g1452ac3 build flags: Assistant Webapp Pairing Testsuite S3 WebDAV Inotify DBus XMPP local repository version: 3 default repository version: 3 supported repository versions: 3 4 upgrade supported from repository versions: 0 1 2 ### Please provide any additional information below. git-annex importfeed --fast http://schoolsucksproject.com/category/podcast/feed/ (checking known urls...) (Recording state in git...) importfeed http://schoolsucksproject.com/category/podcast/feed/ --2013-09-28 00:27:25-- http://schoolsucksproject.com/category/podcast/feed/ Resolving schoolsucksproject.com (schoolsucksproject.com)... 108.162.199.17, 108.162.198.17 Connecting to schoolsucksproject.com (schoolsucksproject.com)|108.162.199.17|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/xml] Saving to: `/tmp/feed16555' 2013-09-28 00:27:28 (217 KB/s) - `/tmp/feed16555' saved [423071] addurl School_Sucks_Project___Podcasts/238f__Presence_and_Productivity__6___Tools_For_A_Freed_Mind_and_A_Voluntary_Life_mp3 unable to access url: http://schoolsucks.podomatic.com/enclosure/2013-09-21T08_21_33-07_00.mp3 failed addurl School_Sucks_Project___Podcasts/238e__Presence_and_Productivity__5___Habit_Change_mp3 unable to access url: http://schoolsucks.podomatic.com/enclosure/2013-09-18T20_40_40-07_00.mp3 failed addurl School_Sucks_Project___Podcasts/238d__Presence_and_Productivity__4___Next_Actions__Projects__and_Procrastination_mp3 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:
 
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

> 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]] 

> I've [[done]] what's discussed above, and verified it fixes
> behavior for this specific server too.
> --[[Joey]]