Re: Get Hot New Stuff - Legacy Endpoints and Multiple Requests (Discover?)

2020-01-30 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 1:05 AM Michael Reeves wrote: > > There seems to be some sort of ssl certificate issue with autoconfig.kde.org. > On kubuntu this triggers a warning as soon as discover starts that may be a > contributing factor. I've checked and can find no fault with autoconfig.kde.org

WARNING: was bad recommendation (Re: Recommendation: drop ProvidersUrl entry to rely on default value)

2020-01-30 Thread Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
Hi, TLDR: removing the ProvidersUrl entry actually breaks things in non-Plasma installations, so for now has to be hardcoded, using the non-deprecated ProvidersUrl=https://autoconfig.kde.org/ocs/providers.xml See below for investigation results: Am Freitag, 31. Januar 2020, 00:14:19 CET schrie

Re: Recommendation: drop ProvidersUrl entry to rely on default value

2020-01-30 Thread Christoph Feck
On 01/30/20 13:53, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: as found out by discussion on irc, a good solution for everyone relying on the default GHNS storage as provided by KDE is to just not hard-code any value for ProvidersUrl, but leave it out and let KNewStuff default to what is built into the KNewS

Re: Get Hot New Stuff - Legacy Endpoints and Multiple Requests (Discover?)

2020-01-30 Thread Michael Reeves
There seems to be some sort of ssl certificate issue with autoconfig.kde.org. On kubuntu this triggers a warning as soon as discover starts that may be a contributing factor. On Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 4:20 AM Ben Cooksley wrote: > Hi all, > > While diagnosing an issue this evening with cdn.kde.org,

Recommendation: drop ProvidersUrl entry to rely on default value (was: Re: Get Hot New Stuff - Legacy Endpoints)

2020-01-30 Thread Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
Hi, as found out by discussion on irc, a good solution for everyone relying on the default GHNS storage as provided by KDE is to just not hard-code any value for ProvidersUrl, but leave it out and let KNewStuff default to what is built into the KNewStuff library as current value. So: --- 8< --

Get Hot New Stuff - Legacy Endpoints and Multiple Requests (Discover?)

2020-01-30 Thread Ben Cooksley
Hi all, While diagnosing an issue this evening with cdn.kde.org, I noticed that we are still getting an extremely large number of requests for the legacy OCS/GHNS providers.xml endpoint, which is supposed to only exist for compatibility with older applications. Looking on LXR i've found that a su