On 12/5/17, Ron W <ronw.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 10:56 AM, > <fossil-users-requ...@lists.fossil-scm.org> > wrote: >> >> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 10:56:06 -0500 >> From: Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> >> Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Fossil in Debian >> >> On 12/5/17, Roy Keene <fos...@rkeene.org> wrote: >> > upstream doesn't make it easy, with their download page that uses >> > javascript to mangle the URLs, thus confounding Debian's automatic >> > monitoring tools. >> >> What else can I do to make things easier for Debian's automatic >> monitoring tools? What do the Debian monitoring tools need? >> > > Isn't this "URL mangling" part of the "bot" protection? > > If the zip files linked on the downloads page are pre-built, how much load > would the bots put on the website without the protections? >
Barak communicated with me off-list. The problem is all the javascript magic that happens to create the download page. See https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/aboutdownload.wiki for a description. I send Barak the https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/uvlist link, and he says that will work fine for Debians automatic update notification system. -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
