Re: Mirror announcement

[Christopher Meng <i@cicku.me>]

Hi,

UA could be something unique similar to “Cygwin mirror/0.01” and I can whitelist then, but having “python-urlli will definitely trigger the WAF.

While I can completely disable the check without issues, if you want to carry a specific UA feel free to do it and I will then white list based on UA.

Let me know when you are ready.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 26, 2024, at 1:40 PM, Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 26/03/2024 14:10, Christopher Meng via Cygwin wrote:
>> Hi, This mirror is actually behind CDN which is "global", so I'm not sure if you can handle such of mirror on your end for redirect.
> 
> OK, I'll leave the location unspecified.
> 
> I gave it a brief test with our setup program and things seem to work correctly (which shouldn't be surprising since it just uses the wininet
> API to fetch files).
> 
> However, it seem our mirror checking script seems to get told "403 Forbidden" when it tries to check if you are up to date.
> 
> Can you tell me (privately, if you like) what User-Agent: it should present? Or suggest another mechanism to allow it access?
>