https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403054
--- Comment #21 from Bernhard Rosenkränzer <b...@lindev.ch> --- Given they're essentially making an automated download impossible these days, the only way I could see to keep updating this database is opening a QWebEngineView to make the user sign up (which will require the user to confirm an email - something we can't easily automate), then make the user store the login information and use that to access the db files -- which would end up being too complicated for most users as well as potentially resulting in unmaintainable code (if they keep changing download locations). As far as I'm concerned, the ways forward could be: 1. Fork the last version of the database that was fully open and keep publishing it in a fixed place hosted in a country not affected by insane laws. Probably the best way to go, but I doubt there will be any volunteers to keep the db up to date? Hosting it wouldn't be an issue, we could put it on OpenMandriva's ABF server in Switzerland. 2. Drop the automated db downloads, instead just use a db file in a fixed location in the filesystem and require the user (or distro) to keep the db up to date. Disable the country lookup feature if the file isn't there. 3. Determine the country by other means (e.g. whois lookup of the IP -- this will result in some incorrect answers, but then again the geoIP DB isn't guaranteed to be 100% accurate either) 4. Combine approaches 1. and 3. - generate a new db from whois information with some way to submit overrides and use that in place of the no-longer-public db Thoughts? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
