From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Woodcroft Subject: Re: GitHub updater broken? Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:56:37 +1000 Message-ID: References: <87d1fvvv4r.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43676) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cRur9-0004Qy-Dn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2017 00:56:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cRur6-00022f-CO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2017 00:56:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87d1fvvv4r.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=c3=a8s?= Cc: guix-devel Hi Ludo, On 11/01/17 00:37, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > Hi Ben, > > The GitHub updater always returns 403 (=E2=80=9CForbidden=E2=80=9D) now= . I tried > passing a token and that didn=E2=80=99t help, but maybe I did not check= the > right boxes at . > > Any idea what can be done about it? It seems GitHub requires a User-Agent to be set, the response-body not=20 reported by http-fetch says as much in agreement with the documention: https://developer.github.com/v3/#user-agent-required I'm afraid I'm afk for the next week and a bit, I can try to send a=20 patch after that, or perhaps someone else can implement this probably=20 small change. Thanks, ben.