Re: url-fetch with referer

2019-06-01 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Ludovic Courtès writes: > (It would be more convincing if this is for a package to be included in > Guix proper, hint hint. :-)) Hint taken, but hey, the world being what it is... One battle at a time! :D > You could write something like: > > --8<---cut here---start

Re: url-fetch with referer

2019-05-31 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> More generally, we’ve added a couple of HTTP headers for issues that >> were relatively common. We could easily fix this one, but maybe you >> could first talk to the webmasters, because requiring ‘Referer’ sounds >> obnoxious; WDYT? > >

Re: url-fetch with referer

2019-05-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > For instance > > wget https://foo/bar.zip > > fails, while > > wget --referer https://foo https://foo/bar.zip > > works. I say that it’s a buggy web site. :-) More generally, we’ve added a couple of HTTP headers for issues that were relatively common. We c