On 05/05/2015 08:36 AM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
2015-05-05 5:37 GMT+03:00 Niclas Hedhman <nic...@hedhman.org>:
I just tried to download Maven and randomly selected a download mirror;
http://apache.petsads.us/maven/maven-3/3.3.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.3.3-bin.tar.gz
But get presented with a captcha, and I think that is not expected/allowed
since it might break automated tools.
Good question.
For information:
The captcha on that site is shown by CloudFlare, that serves as a
proxy for them,
https://www.cloudflare.com/5xx-error-landing
Maybe there was a reason for it.
http://www.apache.org/info/how-to-mirror.html
"How to become a mirror" - does not say anything about captchas,
though it says "Your mirror must not be shown "inside" another site
using, for instance, frames."
Pretty sure that
You must not modify the mirrored tree in any way. In particular,
HEADER.html and README.html files must not be altered or removed ; see
below for adding sponsor information.
covers this behavior.
The reason that the site doesn't mention captchas was that the term
didn't exist when this document was written. However, "modify" is
general enough that it's covered.
For whatever it's worth, I don't get a captcha at that URL - I get the
expected file. Probably some transitory problem that has since cleared up.
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