Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2020 21:35:55 +0200 From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> To: Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> Cc: Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd@daemonic.se>, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is pkg site forbidden by brower? Message-ID: <38D9A5B2-C842-4D4A-8513-EA1A94DE1964@grem.de> In-Reply-To: <20200906150549.d3dc2c85698a1ff604a6bcaf@j.email.ne.jp> References: <20200906150549.d3dc2c85698a1ff604a6bcaf@j.email.ne.jp>
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> On 6. Sep 2020, at 21:09, Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> wrote: > > On Sun, 6 Sep 2020 14:47:00 +0200 > Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> wrote: > >> >> >>>> On 6. Sep 2020, at 12:00, Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd@daemonic.se> wrote: >>> >>> 〓On 2020-09-06 09:00, grarpamp wrote: >>>>> On 9/6/20, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 8:04 PM Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> wrote: >>>>>> Is "403 Forbidden" an intended response for a brower access to >>>>>> http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:i386/ nowdays? >>>>>> >>>>>> I used to see available packages with a brower and decided which one to >>>>>> use. >>>> Some more people have noted this change >>>> as breaking tool scripts, etc. >>>> And useful meta files are unfortunately now invisible: >>>> packagesite.txz, meta.txz, pkg.txz, pkg.txz.sig >>>> If someone want to block the '/.../All/' dir full of pkgs, >>>> maybe, but do not block any other part of the hier. >>> >>> The reason that folder listing was disabled on the package download sites is that it used too >>> much resources. For every hit on those URLs, the web server had to dynamically generate the >>> folder listing, and send it. This caused DDoS-like scenarios, where these were hit repeatedly, >>> which caused problems for legitimate traffic. Since the relevant information is available in >>> the txz files above, and also on freshports, and since pkg have no need for directory listing, >>> it was disabled. >>> >> >> Is this part of why pkg repos are performing so much better recently? I‘m quite happy about >> that :) >> >> If there’s a use case for having access to this information, we could simply provide it through a >> static index.html that’s recreated every time the directory changes. >> >> Cheers, >> Michael > > Michael, > > Do you own pkg sites? Unfortunately not, but you could ask clusteradm@ about that. Cheers, Michael > > I like the idea of creating static index.html file as there are modules with version numbers and also modules with multiple version numbers. > Brower helps to find which versions are available, for example. > > Regards, > Hiro > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"help
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