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

Fri Feb 21 17:02:35 CET 2020

Hey Simon (et al),

I setup a 2x daily link checker job for mac.r-project.org. It outputs tabular results to https://rud.is/mac-r-project-links/ (timestamp at top is when the job ran). One table is for HTTP HEAD results and the other is for HTTPS HEAD results since the server doesn't auto-upgrade HTTP to HTTPS which could mean different status codes depending the underlying config.

It's also configured to send me a pushover notification for anything but 200 return status code an I'll post here or privately when you give me the go-ahead to do that (since it cld take a bit to fix the below :-).

Right now, the following links have non-200 status codes:

- 404 http://mac.r-project.org/mavericks/R-3.4-branch/R-3.4-branch-mavericks-signed.pkg
- 404 http://mac.r-project.org/RSwitch-1.1.dmg
- 404 http://mac.r-project.org/RSwitch-1.2.tar.gz
- 404 http://mac.r-project.org/RSwitch-1.1.tar.gz
- 403 http://mac.r-project.org/el-capitan/R-3.6-branch/R-3.6-branch-el-capitan-sa-x86_64.tar.gz

Lemme know if I can do any more monitoring/alerting for the site.

-boB

> On Feb 21, 2020, at 09:12, Patrick Schratz <patrick.schratz using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Simon, sorry I was wrong with the version.
> In fact, I am getting a 403 with the R-3.6 branch. Other branches work fine.
> 
> curl -Osv http://mac.r-project.org/el-capitan/R-3.6-branch/R-3.6-branch-el-capitan-sa-x86_64.tar.gz  I
> * Trying 184.172.231.50...
> * TCP_NODELAY set
> * Connected to mac.r-project.org (184.172.231.50) port 80 (#0)
>> GET /el-capitan/R-3.6-branch/R-3.6-branch-el-capitan-sa-x86_64.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
>> Host: mac.r-project.org
>> User-Agent: curl/7.64.1
>> Accept: */*
>> 
> < HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
> < Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:08:51 GMT
> < Server: Apache
> < Content-Length: 266
> < Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
> <
> { [266 bytes data]
> * Connection #0 to host mac.r-project.org left intact
> * Closing connection 0
> 
> Can anyone reproduce this or is this really on my side? If you, any hints on resolving this?
> On 20. Feb 2020, 20:36 +0100, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek using r-project.org>, wrote:
>> 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
>>>> ZIM - Zentrum für Informationstechnologie und Medienmanagement
>>>> Team High-Performance-Computing on Cluster - Environment
>>>> 
>>>> Campus Am Neuen Palais: Am Neuen Palais 10 | 14469 Potsdam
>>>> Tel: +49 331 977-4444, Fax: +49 331 977-1750
>>>> 
>>>> Internet: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/zim/angebote-loesungen/hpc.html
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -----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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