Re: Please Read: Error in website redirection

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 at 14:28, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 at 01:42, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 08/12/2024 01.17, Myles Wilson wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I was recently trying to download QEMU and noticed, on the landing page of
> > > https://www.qemu.org/ <https://www.qemu.org/>,//the button titled "Full 
> > > list
> > > of releases"
> > > redirects to https://download.qemu.org/ <https://download.qemu.org/> which
> > > results in a *403 forbidden* error.
> > > the same issue is present throughout the whole site with any button or
> > > hyperlink to see full releases (even the one found in 
> > > https://www.qemu.org/
> > > download/ <https://www.qemu.org/download/> )
> >
> > It seems to be broken for "https://download.qemu.org"; but if you manually
> > add a slash at the end ("https://download.qemu.org/";) it works at least for 
> > me.
> >
> > Paolo, Stefan, looks like a server misconfiguration to me, is this something
> > that could be fixed in the configs? Otherwise, I think we should update the
> > links on the website to include a slash at the end...
>
> This issue seems to be related to how the CDN server handles the HTTP
> Referer header.
>
> Paolo: Is there a GNOME GitLab project where we can raise an issue to
> ask the CDN admins to help?
>
> The 403 response occurs when I include the referrer:

The GNOME CDN sysadmins have now kindly fixed this for us.

thanks
-- PMM