On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 01:42:03AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Package: popularity-contest > Version: 1.71 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de > > When SUBMITURLS has an https URL (or one not with http:// anyway, > see /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload line 38 for why, > submission fails; syslog has… > > Aug 5 01:37:53 DESKTOP-PN6OO9E popularity-contest: unable to submit report > to https://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi. > > (this is on a standard WSL system, but the bug is present in stock > Debian popcon-upload) and using popcon-upload’s -d option: > > + setsid /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload -d -u > https://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi -f > /var/log/popularity-contest.new -C > Unable to parse url > > This is probably more relevant to certain derivatives, but it will > impact #989082 negatively as well. > > For completeness in case derivatives’ users stumble upon this: > > tglase@DESKTOP-PN6OO9E:~ $ tail -1 /etc/popularity-contest.conf > SUBMITURLS=http://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi > > This makes it succeed as that submit host seems to accept http.
Hello Thorsten, For reasons explained in #989082, submitting via https is not supported. PGP encryption is safer and more robust on popcon time scale. Also, Ubuntu has stopped reporting to popcon.ubuntu.com. Cheers, Bill.
