[Qgis-psc] [Qgis-user] Accessing qGIS APT repositories using Tor

[Andreas Neumann]

Thank you Richard!

It would be good to know more about it before any action.

Andreas

Am 22.04.20 um 09:44 schrieb Richard Duivenvoorde:
> I've forwarded this to one of my Debian guru's :-)
> Maybe he has a clue.
>
> This ctemplar.com is a hoster/mailprovider from Island with limited
> liability on the Seychelles...
>
> For what I know we have a very vanilla cloudflare config:
> - all sites via cache
> - some bigger downloads via cache
>
> But let him speak to/via psc list (why starting on user list anyway)?
> (my mail filters did not even let me get the first mail...)
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>
> On 4/21/20 9:43 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> The reason I propose to not do anything is that it makes it hard to
>> block hosts that are acting badly on our servers. Though I guess getting
>> details makes more sense than my response :-)
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>> On 21 Apr 2020, at 20:37, Marco Bernasocchi <marco at qgis.org
>>> <mailto:marco at qgis.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have no idea.
>>> some people use tor by default connectivity. or maybe because of
>>> cloudflare being a us company.
>>>
>>> plenty possible reasons, easier to ask :)
>>> cheers
>>>
>>> On Tue, 21 Apr 2020, 21:32 Andreas Neumann, <a.neumann at carto.net
>>> <mailto:a.neumann at carto.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>      Hi Marco,
>>>
>>>      Yes, we could ask. Probably some kind of special casing, or
>>>      rewrite rules on the server.
>>>
>>>      But I fail to understand why someone wants to install QGIS through
>>>      Tor? It is not that we are tracking anyone - or are they afraid of
>>>      Cloudflare tracking?
>>>
>>>      Or are there countries who forbid to install QGIS?
>>>
>>>      Andreas
>>>
>>>      Am 21.04.20 um 21:30 schrieb Marco Bernasocchi:
>>>>      maybe ask them to explain a bit more and what they would need us
>>>>      to do?
>>>>
>>>>      cheers
>>>>
>>>>      On Tue, 21 Apr 2020, 14:01 Andreas Neumann, <a.neumann at carto.net
>>>>      <mailto:a.neumann at carto.net>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>          Forwarding this to the PSC list.
>>>>
>>>>          Do we need to do something here?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
>>>>          Betreff: 	[Qgis-user] Accessing qGIS APT repositories using Tor
>>>>          Datum: 	Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:23:52 -0000
>>>>          Von: 	patagioenas <patagioenas at ctemplar.com>
>>>>          <mailto:patagioenas at ctemplar.com>
>>>>          An: 	qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
>>>>          <mailto:qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          Greetings,
>>>>
>>>>          We would like to get in touch with the website operator of
>>>>          qgis.org <http://qgis.org/> in order to discuss an issue
>>>>          regarding the access of the apt-get repositories using Tor
>>>>          (https://www.torproject.org/).
>>>>
>>>>          Long story short: the current CloudFare configuration of
>>>>          qgis.org <http://qgis.org/> is preventing Tor users from
>>>>          installing qGIS using the debian (APT) repositories.
>>>>
>>>>          Could you please put us in touch with the website operator?
>>>>          alternatively we can detail the different workarounds here.
>>>>
>>>>          Thanks :-)
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