You can rsync from ibiblio pretty easily

On 9/8/06, Mike Perham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yeah, I saw that.  The IP resolved to petal.amgreetings.com.  I'm not
sure why a greeting card company is using Maven but a donation would
be nice if that person is reading this.

Fair enough, it's not a big deal to spoof my user-agent.


On 9/8/06, Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 8 Sep 06, at 11:29 AM 8 Sep 06, Mike Perham wrote:
>
> > We are walled off from the public repo in order to control our
> > dependencies very closely.  Until recently, if I found that we needed
> > a new package, I would just suck down the contents by using wget:
> >
> > wget -nd -l 1 -r
> > http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-attributes/commons-attributes-
> > api/2.2/
> >
> > The new repo does User-Agent sniffing so that I can't do this.  If I
> > add -U Mozilla, wget works fine.
> >
> > Am I doing something unreasonable or is it possible to disable this
> > sniffing?
> >
>
> I disabled wget because people were trying to sync the entire
> repository using wget. Some asshole sucked out 7GB and I'm paying for
> the bandwidth right now. We need to figure out how to stop crawling
> and then I would turn it back on. I turned it off because at the rate
> of yesterday's consumption I could not afford the bandwidth.
>

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