Re: LilyPond website is not available in some countries

[Remy CLAVERIE]

Omid,

You should consider using a VPN, I think.

Good luck

Rémy

 

 

 

 

> Message du 02/11/21 16:14
> De : "Omid Mo'menzadeh" <omid.mnzadeh@gmail.com>
> A : "Phil Holmes" <mail@philholmes.net>
> Copie à : "lilypond-user" <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
> Objet : Re: LilyPond website is not available in some countries
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Well, that's good news, since it would make fixing the problem a lot easier. Here is my output from "ping lilypond.org", which definitely is trying to get something from Google:
> PING lilypond.org (35.206.114.173) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 173.114.206.35.bc.googleusercontent.com (35.206.114.173): icmp_seq=1 ttl=99 time=312 ms
> 64 bytes from 173.114.206.35.bc.googleusercontent.com (35.206.114.173): icmp_seq=2 ttl=96 time=279 ms
> 64 bytes from 173.114.206.35.bc.googleusercontent.com (35.206.114.173): icmp_seq=3 ttl=99 time=339 ms
> 64 bytes from 173.114.206.35.bc.googleusercontent.com (35.206.114.173): icmp_seq=4 ttl=96 time=310 ms
> 64 bytes from 173.114.206.35.bc.googleusercontent.com (35.206.114.173): icmp_seq=5 ttl=96 time=311 ms
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On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 5:13 PM Phil Holmes <mail@philholmes.net> wrote:
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On 02/11/2021 12:53, Kevin Cole wrote:
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On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 6:42 AM Omid Mo'menzadeh <omid.mnzadeh@gmail.com> wrote:
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Hello all.
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I'm not sure if this is the right list to post this, but I'll give it a shot here, and see where I should report this.

The problem seems to be the website's hosting, which appears to be provided by Google, which blocks access from certain countries in accordance with US law (with the error message "403. That’s an error. Your client does not have permission to get URL / from this server. That’s all we know."). This would not surprise me if LilyPond was not a GNU project, but it's a bit off at the moment, to say the least.

What I would want to know if this is something the team cares about, and where I should discuss this.

Thanks,

Omid Momenzadeh
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I could  be mistaken -- I often am -- but...

I suspect it's merely that the site is designed to construct search queries using Google as the default search engine -- along with Google's option to limit the search to a particular site. This saves the maintainers from having to install a search engine and keep it updated.
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(One other negative consequence of this setup is that it randomly chooses the version of documentation -- e.g. If I am on a .../doc/v2.20/... page and search for a term, it will happily offer up a match from .../doc/v2.22/..., .../doc/2.18/... or whatever else it finds.)

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> No - it's hosted on Google currently.

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> Phil Holmes
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