Avoid issues when using wget2 where the requested url might return an html page instead of the expected content by kit-ty-kate · Pull Request #6303 · ocaml/opam

kit-ty-kate · 2024-11-16T03:04:40Z

When using wget2 (default wget on Fedora 40 and 41), the testsuite fails with:

diff --git a/tests/reftests/swhid.unix.test b/tests/reftests/swhid.unix.test
--- a/tests/reftests/swhid.unix.test
+++ b/tests/reftests/swhid.unix.test
@@ -109,9 +109,18 @@ The following actions will be performed:
 
 <><> Processing actions <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
 Source https://fake.exe/url.tar.gz is not available. Do you want to try to retrieve it from Software Heritage cache (https://www.softwareheritage.org)? It may take few minutes. [y/N] y
--> retrieved snappy-swhid-dir.2  (SWH fallback)
--> installed snappy-swhid-dir.2
-Done.
+[ERROR] Failed to get sources of snappy-swhid-dir.2: SWH fallback: Unknown swhid
+
+OpamSolution.Fetch_fail("SWH fallback: Unknown swhid")
+
+
+<><> Error report <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
++- The following actions failed
+| - fetch snappy-swhid-dir 2
++- 
+- No changes have been performed
+'${OPAM} install snappy-swhid-dir -v' failed.
+# Return code 40 #

It turns out the issue was that by default wget2 prefers to get html files so the Software Heritage server will serve an html file instead of the expected application/json. This fix fixes this issue as well when downloading archives from some servers that also have the same behaviour of returning a different output depending on the value of Accept:.

See rockdaboot/wget2#337

rjbou · 2024-11-18T17:05:58Z

As we will drop the support of wget in for SWH fallback, is the PR still needed? I can integrate it in the new PR that i'll that contains the support of wget for SWH fallback.

rjbou

testing automerge :)

testing automerge

src/repository/opamDownload.ml

testing automerge

kit-ty-kate · 2024-11-18T17:34:32Z

As we will drop the support of wget in for SWH fallback, is the PR still needed? I can integrate it in the new PR that i'll that contains the support of wget for SWH fallback.

it is still needed for the rare cases where servers serving package archives would have the same behaviour (serving html in priority to the expected archive)

testing automerge

rjbou · 2024-11-18T17:56:43Z

it is still needed for the rare cases where servers serving package archives would have the same behaviour (serving html in priority to the expected archive)

The PR title, changes and commit should be changed then to highlight that part, no SWH related.

If it is possible, can you share some before/after outputs?

kit-ty-kate · 2024-11-18T20:32:15Z

If it is possible, can you share some before/after outputs?

you mean something like that?

$ wget -o /dev/null -O - https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/ping/
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang=en> <head><meta charset=utf-8><meta http-equiv=X-UA-Compatible content="IE=edge"><meta name=viewport content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no"><title>/api/1/ping/ &ndash; Software Heritage archive</title><link href=/static/css/vendors.20cca2036e90a545f2b3.css rel=stylesheet><script src=/static/js/vendors.1b40ce5a12cfe19ecae5.js></script><link href=/static/css/webapp.03cb3aa11786722731e5.css rel=stylesheet><script src=/static/js/webapp.2c646cd02512089c4e21.js></script><link href=/static/css/guided_tour.96ec07d95e2576133b7b.css rel=stylesheet><script src=/static/js/guided_tour.d5f5ab93e992076c79be.js></script><script>
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$ wget "--header=Accept: */*" -o /dev/null -O - https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/ping/ && echo
"pong"

… html page instead of the expected content

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