[R-SIG-Mac] R-latest.pkg link returning a 403 Forbidden error

[Simon Urbanek]

Patrick,

it works just fine for me: 

$ curl -s -v -o /dev/null https://mac.r-project.org/bin/macosx/R-latest.pkg 
*   Trying 184.172.231.50...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to mac.r-project.org (184.172.231.50) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* Cipher selection: ALL:!EXPORT:!EXPORT40:!EXPORT56:!aNULL:!LOW:!RC4:@STRENGTH
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
[...]
* SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
* ALPN, server accepted to use http/1.1
* Server certificate:
*  subject: CN=mac.r-project.org
*  start date: Jan 26 18:55:18 2020 GMT
*  expire date: Apr 25 18:55:18 2020 GMT
*  subjectAltName: host "mac.r-project.org" matched cert's "mac.r-project.org"
*  issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3
*  SSL certificate verify ok.
> GET /bin/macosx/R-latest.pkg HTTP/1.1
> Host: mac.r-project.org
> User-Agent: curl/7.54.0
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 19:31:51 GMT
< Server: Apache
< Last-Modified: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 14:09:32 GMT
< ETag: "4d4a72f-599bea4d7df00"
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Content-Length: 81045295
< 

Please make sure you clear your caches and try directly without proxies.

Cheers,
Simon



> On 20/02/2020, at 9:41 PM, Patrick Schratz <patrick.schratz using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> @Simon
> 
> As of today the link still returns a 403 - other R versions work.
> Could you have a look? Especially because the Travis CI runner by Jim relies on it, this is somewhat pressing.
> 
> Thanks.
> On 18. Feb 2020, 07:43 +0100, Matthias Krawutschke <krawutschke using uni-potsdam.de>, wrote:
>> Dear Simon,
>> 
>> thank you so much.
>> If I want to download the latest R-package with this link - i´ve got the cryptic signs in the window, but not the file ☹
>> 
>> Best regars….
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Matthias Krawutschke, Dipl. Inf.
>> 
>> Universität Potsdam
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>> 
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>> 
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac-bounces using r-project.org> Im Auftrag von Simon Urbanek
>> Gesendet: Freitag, 14. Februar 2020 19:15
>> An: Jim Hester <james.hester using rstudio.com>
>> Cc: r-sig-mac using r-project.org
>> Betreff: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R-latest.pkg link returning a 403 Forbidden error
>> 
>> Thanks, should be fixed now (adding index removed symlink following permission).
>> Simon
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 15, 2020, at 4:50 AM, Jim Hester <james.hester using rstudio.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The link https://mac.r-project.org/bin/macosx/R-latest.pkg which
>>> previously served the latest version of R is now returning a 403. Is
>>> this an intentional change, or is it an unintentional? This link is
>>> used by the Travis-CI build scripts for macOS, so if the link is no
>>> longer valid we will need to update the script.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Jim
>>> 
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