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: >=20 > =EF=BB=BFOn Sun, 6 Sep 2020 14:47:00 +0200 > Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> wrote: >=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>>> On 6. Sep 2020, at 12:00, Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd@daemonic.se> w= rote: >>>=20 >>> =E3=80=93On 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? >>>>>>=20 >>>>>> I used to see available packages with a brower and decided which one t= o >>>>>> 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. >>>=20 >>> The reason that folder listing was disabled on the package download site= s is that it used too >>> much resources. For every hit on those URLs, the web server had to dyna= mically generate the >>> folder listing, and send it. This caused DDoS-like scenarios, where the= se were hit repeatedly, >>> which caused problems for legitimate traffic. Since the relevant inform= ation is available in >>> the txz files above, and also on freshports, and since pkg have no need f= or directory listing, >>> it was disabled. >>>=20 >>=20 >> Is this part of why pkg repos are performing so much better recently? I=E2= =80=98m quite happy about >> that :) >>=20 >> If there=E2=80=99s a use case for having access to this information, we c= ould simply provide it through a >> static index.html that=E2=80=99s recreated every time the directory chang= es. >>=20 >> Cheers, >> Michael >=20 > Michael, >=20 > Do you own pkg sites? Unfortunately not, but you could ask clusteradm@ about that. Cheers, Michael >=20 > I like the idea of creating static index.html file as there are modules wi= th version numbers and also modules with multiple version numbers. > Brower helps to find which versions are available, for example. >=20 > 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"=
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