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Redsandro
commented on July 3, 2024
Mentioned packages are now broken.
User d...@s...com sends the following message to the maintainers of Package 'classic-shell'.
No longer works, it seems fosshub has moved to a protected/expiring time link. The executable will have to be pulled from somewhere else now.
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Redsandro
commented on July 3, 2024
@TomOne I see you made the first commit of MkvToolNix. Can you help figure out how to cheat fosshub's policy (of making things less transparent and closing down downloads while profiting over the success of foss apps)? Maybe some regex trickery like we did in cnet.
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TomOne
commented on July 3, 2024
The mkvtoolnix and classic-shell packages are now fixed.
@Redsandro, you can look at the source files of the mkvtoolnix package to see how it is possible to download from fosshub.
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gep13
commented on July 3, 2024
@TomOne can we close this issue?
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Redsandro
commented on July 3, 2024
Thanks @TomOne! 👍
I would like to apply this to LightAlloy player and pull it into auto updating core team repo. But no time at the moment.
In my opinion, this can stay open until I fixed LightAlloy and pulled it in. Also, I think we need to globalize the function to download from certain sources, so one fix applies to all packages. I think @ferventcoder does not plan to pick this up any time soon, seen as the issue arose in 2013, and I'm wondering if we can create helper packages that packages such as the 3 mentioned in this topic can depend upon.
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gep13
commented on July 3, 2024
In my opinion, this can stay open until I fixed LightAlloy and pulled it in.
Okay dokay.
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Redsandro
commented on July 3, 2024
@TomOne what's happening here?
# In case you see \{\{DownloadUrlx64\}\} (without backslashes)
# after the commented lines, it’s intended.
$genLinkUrlArray = {{DownloadUrlx64}}
$url = Get-FosshubLinks $genLinkUrlArray[0]
$url64 = Get-FosshubLinks $genLinkUrlArray[1]
How is my DownloadUrlx64 an array?
What to do if there is no 64bit version?
What's a genLink and where do I get it?
It's probably beautifully simple, but I'm not getting it.
PS C:\Users\IEUser> Get-FosshubLinks http://www.fosshub.com/Light-Alloy.html
Cannot index into a null array.
At line:3 char:30
+ $fosshubAppName = $Matches[ <<<< 1]
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (1:Int32) [], RuntimeException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : NullArray
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
(followed by a html document)
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Redsandro
commented on July 3, 2024
Still haven't figured out what's going on with the DownloadUrlx64 array in your code, but I managed to use the module. Nice! 👍
In my package I renamed this to Get-UrlFromFosshub. It makes sense to use similar name convention as I used in my previous helper extensions:
Get-UrlFromRegex(which is now in Chocolatey vCurrent)Get-UrlFromCnet(which I wanted in Chocolatey vCurrent but @ferventcoder thought it should be a separate helper back in '13)
Anyway, a good way to use something that might get implemented into vCurrent or a helper - and might get updated without needing to renew the packages - is like so:
if (!(Get-Command Get-UrlFromFosshub -errorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
Import-Module "$($pwd)\Get-UrlFromFosshub.ps1"
}
$url = Get-UrlFromFosshub $url
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Redsandro
commented on July 3, 2024
Fosshub changed again?
See #64
We really should have helpers for this: chocolatey-archive/chocolatey#377
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TomOne
commented on July 3, 2024
Fosshub changed again?
See #64
No, that was just a package-related issue, see #64 (comment)
We really should have helpers for this: chocolatey-archive/chocolatey#377
Not sure about that. While it would certainly help to have less complicated install-scripts, there could be a significant delay until a new version of Chocolatey gets released that catches up when a change in such a download function is needed.
I think it would be better to keep such download functions in separate modules that can be updated independently of Chocolatey itself.
Thoughts?
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Redsandro
commented on July 3, 2024
Just a thought - what about installable helpers?
chocolatey -> helpers -> packages
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i-give-up
commented on July 3, 2024
Hey guys, it seems like the Fosshub links are not working anymore. I'm getting "(403) Forbidden" error so it's not a scripting problem.
As such, packages that uses Fosshub links
- mkvtoolnix
- audacity
- palemoon (ketarin was updated to not use fosshub but the change hasn't taken effect on current package yet)
fail to install.
Also, I see the ketarin for avidemux has been updated to use fosshub but the change hasn't taken effect on the current package yet.
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Redsandro
commented on July 3, 2024
The fosshub download page does this on download click:
$(function () {
$('.xlink').click(function () {
var elem = $(this);
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "/updateStats/" + elem.attr('file'),
success: function (data) {
if (data == 'alldone') {
window.location.href = elem.attr('data');
}
}
});
return false;
});
});
I.e. this sends a request to:
"/updateStats/" + elem.attr('file') AKA
http://www.fosshub.com/updateStats/mkvtoolnix
and then it changes the location to:
elem.attr('data') AKA
http://download.fosshub.com/Protected/expiretime=1444570626;badurl=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5mb3NzaHViLmNvbS9NS1ZUb29sTml4Lmh0bWw=/746380211b8d20f1a005e6ce981ef454857dd0e14a2b2e48673da4b7aebc7ee6/MKVToolNix/mkvtoolnix-64bit-8.4.0-1-setup.exe
Obviously the last one is generated on pageview, but when I do these steps manually, I still don't get the download.
Maybe the link is only valid for a second. Someone should automate this in powershell, and keep in mind
$referer = "http://www.fosshub.com/[downloadlink]"
$webClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$webClient.Headers.Add("Referer", $referer)
Also I still recommend adding these packages and let other packages depend on them:
choco-helper-fosshubchoco-helper-softonic
etc.
Fix one package to fix all packages with broken dependencies.
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i-give-up
commented on July 3, 2024
It seems like I occasionally have to pass a captcha test (from Cloudflare) to get to any Fosshub page. I don't know if there's any way to bypass that.
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TomOne
commented on July 3, 2024
The packages which download files from Fosshub work fine for me. mkvtoolnix just had a package-related issue, because the author removed the 8.4.0 version from Fosshub and added 8.4.0-1 instead. Thus the package returned a 404 error.
It seems like I occasionally have to pass a captcha test (from Cloudflare) to get to any Fosshub page.
Really? I’ve never encountered a captcha when opening a Fosshub page. Perhaps the issue is related to your IP address.
We really should encourage software authors to not use that this 💩 FossHub service and instead switch to a more reasonable service like GitHub, which has no ads and doesn’t attempt to hamper automated downloads.
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ferventcoder
commented on July 3, 2024
Did the capcha thing just start? I just implemented CloudFlare on Friday for chocolatey.org
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i-give-up
commented on July 3, 2024
If you haven't seen it before, the captcha from CloudFlare looks like this.
I found this FAQ dated Jan 2015 about the captcha, so it definitely has been around for some time.
Really? I’ve never encountered a captcha when opening a Fosshub page. Perhaps the issue is related to your IP address.
Yeah, it's most likely IP-address-dependent.
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ferventcoder
commented on July 3, 2024
Ah okay, it's from FossHub and not from https://chocolatey.org
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i-give-up
commented on July 3, 2024
Okay, the Fosshub-genlink link works fine when I use a U.S. VPN.
No one seems to have raised this issue other than me, so maybe it's not a big deal?
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TomOne
commented on July 3, 2024
This issue doesn’t seems to require any more TODOs. Can it be closed?
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gep13
commented on July 3, 2024
@TomOne I have been leaving this one open, as I have on my todo list to create a Chocolatey Extension package that other packages can take a dependency on, rather than each package including the current extra .ps1 file.
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wickles
commented on July 3, 2024
I noticed the classic-shell package now uses a mediafire link. I opted not to install via chocolatey because of that, although I noticed since then that it is actually an 'official' mirror listed on the project webpage. Would it be possible to switch back to fosshub now? That seems to be their only proper official host.
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Redsandro
commented on July 3, 2024
@wickles fosshub links seem to implement captcha for certain IPs and VPNs. So the downloads cannot be reliably automated.
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dtgm
commented on July 3, 2024
@Redsandro Just to clarify, fosshub uses CloudFlare, so it is CloudFlare implementing this restriction, and not something FossHub has control over AFAIK. Just something to keep in mind for other software distribution sites that may switch over to CloudFlare CDN.
@ferventcoder Because of ^^^, chocolatey packages should also be affected. I've seen CloudFlare captcha quite often when web browsing via Tor. Tor concentrates web traffic to specific IPs which subsequently get flagged as suspicious by CloudFlare. I haven't actually tested installing packages using chocolatey.org through tor though.
@wickles "fosshub [...] their only proper official host" seems to be a bit misleading given both distribution links are third party CDNs. The downside of using FossHub is what @Redsandro mentioned. The downside of mediafire is it could be from a free account and subject to limited bandwidth restrictions. I am not familiar with mediafire, but other cloud file services just cut off access to the account/file for the month if it exceeds an arbitrary bandwidth transfer threshold. So should that occur, that would be worse than FossHub/CloudFlare restriction. At this point MediaFlare wins because of KISS.
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ferventcoder
commented on July 3, 2024
MediaFire has a bandwidth of a certain amount that rolls over each month (unused amounts). I don't remember all of the details but I have one of those.
CloudFlare has those captchas turned on by default, but you can adjust them. I had to adjust them for dot org.
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gep13
commented on July 3, 2024
Calling this one down as well.
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