Aye. It's working fine from more than a few vantage points I've tested it from via personal internet endpoints and work systems.
I've setup a daily 0500 ET cron job to do a HEAD of said URL and output a slice of the {httr} response object as JSON to: https://rud.is/dl/r-latest.json in the event other folks have issues and need a validation point from a third party. I've also got a local (not internet-facing) script that monitors the mirror status (separate from what CRAN does as it's just looking for last-modified date of src/contrib/PACKAGES, bin/windows/contrib/3.6/PACKAGES, and bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.6/PACKAGES on all HTTPS CRAN mirrors). It's not internet-facing since I use it to check my own internal CRAN mirror but I can also make a public JSON endpoint for it as well if that wld be helpful for folks. -Bob On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 2:36 PM Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > > Patrick, > > it works just fine for me: > > $ curl -s -v -o /dev/null https://mac.r-project.org/bin/macosx/R-latest.pkg > * Trying 184.172.231.50... > * TCP_NODELAY set > * Connected to mac.r-project.org (184.172.231.50) port 443 (#0) > * ALPN, offering h2 > * ALPN, offering http/1.1 > * Cipher selection: ALL:!EXPORT:!EXPORT40:!EXPORT56:!aNULL:!LOW:!RC4:@STRENGTH > * successfully set certificate verify locations: > [...] > * SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 > * ALPN, server accepted to use http/1.1 > * Server certificate: > * subject: CN=mac.r-project.org > * start date: Jan 26 18:55:18 2020 GMT > * expire date: Apr 25 18:55:18 2020 GMT > * subjectAltName: host "mac.r-project.org" matched cert's "mac.r-project.org" > * issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3 > * SSL certificate verify ok. > > GET /bin/macosx/R-latest.pkg HTTP/1.1 > > Host: mac.r-project.org > > User-Agent: curl/7.54.0 > > Accept: */* > > > < HTTP/1.1 200 OK > < Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 19:31:51 GMT > < Server: Apache > < Last-Modified: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 14:09:32 GMT > < ETag: "4d4a72f-599bea4d7df00" > < Accept-Ranges: bytes > < Content-Length: 81045295 > < > > Please make sure you clear your caches and try directly without proxies. > > Cheers, > Simon > > > > > On 20/02/2020, at 9:41 PM, Patrick Schratz <patrick.schr...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > @Simon > > > > As of today the link still returns a 403 - other R versions work. > > Could you have a look? Especially because the Travis CI runner by Jim > > relies on it, this is somewhat pressing. > > > > Thanks. > > On 18. Feb 2020, 07:43 +0100, Matthias Krawutschke > > <krawutsc...@uni-potsdam.de>, wrote: > >> Dear Simon, > >> > >> thank you so much. > >> If I want to download the latest R-package with this link - i´ve got the > >> cryptic signs in the window, but not the file ☹ > >> > >> Best regars…. > >> > >> > >> > >> Matthias Krawutschke, Dipl. Inf. > >> > >> Universität Potsdam > >> ZIM - Zentrum für Informationstechnologie und Medienmanagement > >> Team High-Performance-Computing on Cluster - Environment > >> > >> Campus Am Neuen Palais: Am Neuen Palais 10 | 14469 Potsdam > >> Tel: +49 331 977-4444, Fax: +49 331 977-1750 > >> > >> Internet: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/zim/angebote-loesungen/hpc.html > >> > >> > >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > >> Von: R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac-boun...@r-project.org> Im Auftrag von Simon > >> Urbanek > >> Gesendet: Freitag, 14. Februar 2020 19:15 > >> An: Jim Hester <james.hes...@rstudio.com> > >> Cc: r-sig-mac@r-project.org > >> Betreff: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R-latest.pkg link returning a 403 Forbidden error > >> > >> Thanks, should be fixed now (adding index removed symlink following > >> permission). > >> Simon > >> > >> > >>> On Feb 15, 2020, at 4:50 AM, Jim Hester <james.hes...@rstudio.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> The link https://mac.r-project.org/bin/macosx/R-latest.pkg which > >>> previously served the latest version of R is now returning a 403. Is > >>> this an intentional change, or is it an unintentional? This link is > >>> used by the Travis-CI build scripts for macOS, so if the link is no > >>> longer valid we will need to update the script. > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> > >>> Jim > >>> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list > >> R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list > >> R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac