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

Sun Mar 1 15:31:37 CET 2020

I am not sure who has maintenance access to all the links shown by Bobs checker but they are dead since almost two weeks now.

Appreciated if someone could take this on - in the end it is the official resource for getting the R 3.6 branch for Mac (if one wants to avoid the GUI components).

Also the dead and outdated Rswitch links (last updated in 2011) do not add a professional look to the site. One could link Bobs Switch app to enhance the experience for R users on macOS: https://rud.is/rswitch/

On 26. Feb 2020, 15:00 +0100, Bob Rudis <bob using rud.is>, wrote:
> Just a list FYI I'm keeping the status site up (https://rud.is/mac-r-project-links/) but since the current, remaining broken links aren't getting fixed I'm disabling Pushover notifications to me so I won't be able to proactively notify here if more links go bad.
>
> > On Feb 21, 2020, at 11:02, Bob Rudis <bob using rud.is> wrote:
> >
> > 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
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> > > > > > 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
> > > > > >
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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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