On Sun, Jun 08, 2025 at 11:07:26AM -0400, Mouse wrote: > [..] I can't easily > check -current, because HTTP access to cvsweb has been broken; it now > insists on trying to ram HTTPS down my throat.
Side note: it is far worse than http vs. https, it uses www/anubis from pkgsrc to verify you are actually using a "relatively modern" browser (which can run JavaScript worker threads and do sha256). Unfortunately this kind of drastic measures have become necessary to protect against clearly broken AI crawlers that do not respect the /robots.txt standard. On the plus side: for people using qualified web browsers (and allowing a cookie to persist) it is only a few seconds delay once every week. Downside: access via links or simmilar will not work any more, and also not ancient browsers like Firefox 52. I just checked: Palemoon 33.5 works. The Anubis author is aware of the issues and open improvements, they are thinking about ways to bypass the JavaScript requirement and allow fall back to something else for "manual use". Martin
