Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67540&edit=1

 ID:                 67540
 Comment by:         php dot net dot e at salvisberg dot com
 Reported by:        php dot net dot e at salvisberg dot com
 Summary:            svn.php.net blocking Drupal?
 Status:             Not a bug
 Type:               Bug
 Package:            Website problem
 PHP Version:        Irrelevant
 Block user comment: N
 Private report:     N

 New Comment:

Thank you for the links! Since the issue has been identified and resolved, is 
there any chance that you could lift the ban?

http://svn.php.net/repository/pear/packages/Mail_mimeDecode/trunk/Mail/mimeDecode.php
contains a "BSD license style" license.

drupal.org does not allow uploading content that is not under "GPL version 2 or 
later" (see https://www.drupal.org/licensing/faq#q4).

The trunk version of mimeDecode.php is 8 months old, the one on GitHub 3 years, 
and the PEAR package 3.5 years. Downloading the trunk version seems to be the 
only viable option, even at the risks that you mention.


Previous Comments:
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[2014-07-04 22:46:20] tyr...@php.net

it is still a bad practice, because there is no promise that we won 
remove/rename that file or change it's api in a way that it will be 
incompatible with the caller.
so I fail to see why couldn't your friend just put that script into his 
package/app?
btw. if anybody interested in the original reason for blacklisting drupal from 
svn.php.net:
https://twitter.com/mgdm/status/432907801955147777
https://www.drupal.org/node/2193919
now they are using our json api to fetch the signatures:
http://doc.php.net/downloads/json/php_manual_en.json

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[2014-07-04 21:19:06] php dot net dot e at salvisberg dot com

Thank you for your reply and comments. I'm sorry if we have caused you grief -- 
this was surely a bug and not intentional. I'm not sure why you call it 
"abusing" though.

One Drupal module that implements a mechanism to download from your svn 
repository is https://www.drupal.org/project/include. There may be others 
besides it, and I don't know whether this is the one that ran away, but it's 
the one we were using.

I see your point about downloading from the svn trunk. I guess, the original 
developer tried to automate retrieving the dependencies to make it as easy as 
possible to get up and running quickly without having to deal with pear install 
and having to wrestle with getting the dependencies to where his module can 
find them.

In the case of Mail_mimeDecode, downloading from the trunk is probably 
appropriate though, because there is no current branch / release package.

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[2014-06-30 05:27:28] bj...@php.net

I do indeed recall an issue where we had to block drupal installation from 
ddosin our svn repository.

It is clearly not cool on your part to be abusing our repository like this - 
and its not very smart either, as a svn repository is not somewhere you should 
be sending your production users.


Please use the normal download mechanism offered.

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[2014-06-30 00:14:28] php dot net dot e at salvisberg dot com

Description:
------------
A Drupal module that I'm helping to maintain tries to download the following 
file:

http://svn.php.net/repository/pear/packages/Mail_mimeDecode/trunk/Mail/mimeDecode.php

I have no trouble downloading it using my web browser, but a user reports in 
https://www.drupal.org/node/2294753 that the request...

GET /repository/pear/packages/Mail_mimeDecode/trunk/Mail/mimeDecode.php HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Drupal (+http://drupal.org/)
Host: svn.php.net

... fails with an HTTP forbidden notice.


Indeed, I can easily reproduce that with wget (see Test script). Are you 
blocking the "Drupal" user agent? Why?


Test script:
---------------
# wget --user-agent=Drupal 
http://svn.php.net/repository/pear/packages/Mail_mimeDecode/trunk/Mail/mimeDecode.php


Expected result:
----------------
--2014-06-30 02:06:43--  
http://svn.php.net/repository/pear/packages/Mail_mimeDecode/trunk/Mail/mimeDecode.php
Resolving svn.php.net... 213.189.17.212
Connecting to svn.php.net|213.189.17.212|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 39143 (38K) [text/plain]
Saving to: `mimeDecode.php'

100%[=================================================================================================>]
 39,143      --.-K/s   in 0.01s

2014-06-30 02:06:43 (2.69 MB/s) - `mimeDecode.php' saved [39143/39143]


Actual result:
--------------
--2014-06-30 02:01:51--  
http://svn.php.net/repository/pear/packages/Mail_mimeDecode/trunk/Mail/mimeDecode.php
Resolving svn.php.net... 213.189.17.212
Connecting to svn.php.net|213.189.17.212|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2014-06-30 02:01:51 ERROR 403: Forbidden.



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