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

Sun Mar 1 23:53:07 CET 2020

Patrick,

those links are dead for years now so nothing surprising - the binaries got lost in a server crash many years ago, so checking them is actually somewhat pointless.

Also note that some of them are not valid - not all builds are signed.

That said, I have removed those that are not recoverable and added a link to Bob's page (we talked about it for a while with Bob).

Bob, in your checks, can you, please, reduce it to valid checks, i.e. those that are actually expected to work? It seems to confuse people ;).

Thanks,
Simon

> On 2/03/2020, at 3:31 AM, Patrick Schratz <patrick.schratz using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 Also the dead and outdated Rswitch links (last updated in 2011) do not add a professional look to the site.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
>>>>>>> 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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