On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Uwe Koloska <kolewu@koloro.de> wrote:

Hello,

the curl download for package mma fails with the following error curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 406 Not Acceptable

This is because scumbag server admins block requests with the curl user agent. It's a server problem, not a makepkg problem.

This error can be removed by adding '--user-agent "Mozilla/4.0"' to the DLAGENTS from /etc/makepkg.conf.

But with this additional option, the download from sourceforge fails.

How can I solve this contradiction? Is it possible to configure package specific download options in the PKGBUILD?

Sure. You're free to redefine DLAGENTS in a PKGBUILD just as they are in /etc/makepkg.conf.

This are the successful download comands (I have left out the '-C -'):

# works only with agent /usr/bin/curl -fL --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 \ --user-agent "Mozilla/4.0" \ -O http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/mma-bin-12.10.tar.gz

# works only without agent /usr/bin/curl -fL --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 \ -O http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zdfmediathk/MediathekView_3.2.1.zip

Best regards Uwe Koloska

On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Uwe Koloska <kolewu@koloro.de> wrote:

Hello Dave,

thanks for the quick answer!

Am 31.03.2013 23:11, schrieb Dave Reisner:

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On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Uwe Koloska <kolewu@koloro.de> wrote:

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the curl download for package mma fails with the following error curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 406 Not Acceptable

This is because scumbag server admins block requests with the curl user agent. It's a server problem, not a makepkg problem.

Do you know the reason, why curl *with* mozilla user-agent doesn't work with sourceforge? It looks like there is a second redirection with the curl user-agent.

Seems like more server shenanagins based on user-agent. The page you're redirected to with the Mozilla UA is just advertisements stuffed into iframes with a time delayed download.