Homepage is not reachable audit failures

[ilovezfs]

To test brew audit --online foo

• [x] amdatu-bootstrap:
  • The homepage http://amdatu.org/bootstrap/intro.html is not reachable (HTTP status code 404)
• [x] ansible:
  • The homepage https://www.ansible.com/ is not reachable (HTTP status code 403)
• [x] ansible@1.9:
  • The homepage http://www.ansible.com is not reachable (HTTP status code 403)
• [x] ansible@2.0:
  • The homepage https://www.ansible.com/ is not reachable (HTTP status code 403)
• [x] apel:
  • The homepage http://git.chise.org/elisp/apel/ is not reachable (HTTP status code 404)
• [x] apg: (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-boneyard/pull/280)
  • The homepage http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/ is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] apt-dater:
  • The homepage https://www.ibh.de/apt-dater/ is not reachable (HTTP status code 404)
• [x] autocode:
  • The homepage https://autocode.run is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] berkeley-db:
  • The homepage https://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/index.html is not reachable (HTTP status code 302)
• [x] berkeley-db4:
  • The homepage https://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/index.html is not reachable (HTTP status code 302)
• [x] bip: (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-boneyard/pull/281)
  • The homepage https://bip.milkypond.org is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] chipmunk:
  • The homepage https://chipmunk-physics.net/ is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] clens:
  • The homepage https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/clens is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] dbxml:
  • The homepage https://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/berkeley-db/xml/overview/index.html is not reachable (HTTP status code 302)
• [x] dirac:
  • The homepage http://diracvideo.org/ is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] dnsrend:
  • The homepage http://romana.now.ie/dnsrend is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] echoprint-codegen:
  • The homepage http://echoprint.me is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] edelta: (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-boneyard/pull/282)
  • The homepage http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/ansatte/jacobg/edelta/ is not reachable (HTTP status code 404)
• [x] esound: (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-boneyard/pull/283)
  • The homepage http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html is not reachable (HTTP status code 301)
• [x] gnome-doc-utils: (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/10137)
  • The homepage https://live.gnome.org/GnomeDocUtils is not reachable (HTTP status code 404)
• [x] grt:
  • The homepage https://www.nickgillian.com/wiki/pmwiki.php/GRT/GestureRecognitionToolkit is not reachable (HTTP status code 404)
• [x] htpdate:
  • The homepage http://www.vervest.org/fiki/bin/view/HTP is not reachable (HTTP status code 404)
• [x] irods: (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/10138)
  • The homepage https://www.irods.org is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] jetty-runner:
  • The homepage https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/9.3.10.v20160621/runner.html is not reachable (HTTP status code 404)
• [x] lcab: (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-boneyard/pull/284)
  • The homepage http://ohnopub.net/~ohnobinki/lcab/ is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] libhdhomerun: (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/10184)
  • The homepage https://www.silicondust.com/support/downloads/linux/ is not reachable (HTTP status code 404)
• [x] libmonome: (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/10187)
  • The homepage http://illest.net/libmonome/ is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] libnfc:
  • The homepage http://www.libnfc.org/ is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] malaga: (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-boneyard/pull/285)
  • The homepage http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/ is not reachable (HTTP status code 404)
• [x] mecab-ipadic: (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/10191)
  • The homepage https://mecab.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/mecab/doc/index.html is not reachable (HTTP status code 404)
• [x] mecab-jumandic: (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/10193)
  • The homepage https://mecab.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/mecab/doc/index.html is not reachable (HTTP status code 404)
• [x] partio: (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/10196)
  • The homepage http://www.partio.us is not reachable (HTTP status code 404)
• [x] probatron4j: (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-boneyard/pull/286)
  • The homepage http://www.probatron.org is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] rhash:
  • The homepage http://rhash.anz.ru/ is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] riak:
  • The homepage https://basho.com/products/#riak is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] rlwrap: (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/10199)
  • The homepage http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/rlwrap/ is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] rtpbreak: (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-boneyard/pull/287)
  • The homepage http://www.dallachiesa.com/code/rtpbreak/doc/rtpbreak_en.html is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] schroedinger: (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/10202)
  • The homepage http://diracvideo.org/ is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] sha2:
  • The homepage https://aarongifford.com/computers/sha.html is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] slimerjs:
  • The homepage https://slimerjs.org/ is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] spandsp: (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/10204)
  • The homepage https://www.soft-switch.org/ is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] ssreflect:
  • The homepage https://www.msr-inria.fr/projects/mathematical-components-2/ is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] taskd: (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/10205)
  • The homepage https://taskwarrior.org/projects/show/taskwarrior is not reachable (HTTP status code 404)
• [x] termshare: (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/10206)
  • The homepage https://termsha.re is not reachable (HTTP status code 000)
• [x] unpaper:
  • The homepage https://www.flameeyes.eu/projects/unpaper is not reachable (HTTP status code 403)

[geoffmacintosh]

• https://www.ansible.com/ seems to work fine for me in Safari, but brew audit --online ansible gives an error.

• apel 10.8 was updated six years and it looks like the host website was last updated at a similar time. Not sure what to do there. Also, the website seems to be gone.

[ilovezfs]

but brew audit --online ansible gives an error.

Yeah, it's caused by the user-agent string we're passing for some reason.

[geoffmacintosh]

I can go through the rest of the list and maybe make a new list of the ones that are just failing audit --online, and try and correct the ones that need updating.

[ilovezfs]

That would be great.

[geoffmacintosh]

Fails Audit, Website Accessible

• ansible https://www.ansible.com/
• berkleydb https://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/berkeley-db/xml/overview/index.html
• dbxml https://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/berkeley-db/xml/overview/index.html

Dead Website, No Obvious Replacement

• apel Hasn't been updated in six years, host website looks about the same vintage.
• apg This package actually completely fails to build from source because the site is gone. The site is a subdomain of a Kazakhstan ISP, so the author probably changed internet providers? The current version of apg was last updated in 2003, so maybe the project is over.

Other

• autocode's website is down, but the GitHub page seems active. I could link to them.
• bip's site insists on using https with a bad cert.
• chipmunk's certificate is also expired.
• dirac seems abandoned. I could link to its sourceforge home, but it fails to build from source.
• echoprint-codegen is on spotify's GitHub now, but it fails to build from source or pass a brew audit. Seems silly to fix the homepage when it doesn't build anyway.

Waiting

• I tweeted at dnsrend's author. That is the sort of world we live in!

[geoffmacintosh]

If a project won't build from source because the source location is gone with no replacement, what should I do?

[fxcoudert]

• libnfc homepage should be https://github.com/nfc-tools/libnfc
• libmonome homepage should be https://github.com/monome/libmonome
• rlwrap homepage should be https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
• termshare homepage should be https://github.com/progrium/termshare

[ilovezfs]

@fxcoudert looks like libnfc is now actually http://nfc-tools.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

[woodruffw]

For homepages that perform user-agent filtering, we could add a no_robots param that audit can check against (unless changing our user-agent to something more relaxed is preferable).

[ilovezfs]

I think the test should just try with and without the user agent before giving up as opposed to cluttering the DSL.

[MikeMcQuaid]

Yeh, 👎 to DSL changes. We should already be using a Safari user-agent for these so it's maybe not precise enough.

[MikeMcQuaid]

If someone points me to one or more that barf on the current user agent then I'll fix them up.

[ilovezfs]

ansible and dbxml

[ilovezfs]

OK, refreshed the list now that Homebrew/brew#1917 was merged. 19/45 completed!

[ilovezfs]

Thank you to everyone who helped with this! All done.