[sr #111187] Webpages hosted on www.gnu.org or www.nongnu.org unreachable from GitHub infrastructure

[EricFromCanada]

Follow-up Comment #4, sr #111187 (group administration):

[comment #1 comment #1:]
> What is the purpose of this check?

These checks ensure that the formulae in the official "homebrew/core"
repository (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/) have accurate
information.

> What is the frequency of this check?

The scheduled GitHub Action is defined here:
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/.github/workflows/scheduled.yml
It's set to test each formula annually, in blocks distributed throughout the
year. 
This is what its homepage check looks like when run locally:

$ brew audit --online --skip-style --only homepage binutils --debug
/opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FromNameLoader): loading
binutils
/opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Cask::CaskLoader::NullLoader): loading
binutils
==> Auditing Formula binutils on os sonoma and arch arm
/opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FromPathLoader): loading
/opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/b/binutils.rb
/usr/bin/env /opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/shims/shared/curl --disable
--cookie /dev/null --globoff --show-error --user-agent Mozilla/5.0\
\(Macintosh\;\ Intel\ Mac\ OS\ X\ 10_15_7\)\ AppleWebKit/605.1.15\ \(KHTML,\
like\ Gecko\)\ Version/17.0\ Safari/605.1.15 --header Accept-Language:\ en
--connect-timeout 15 --max-time 25 --retry 3 --retry-max-time 25 --dump-header
- --output /private/tmp/20250206-52585-sylsg6 --location
https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/binutils.html


> Why does this check not identify itself with a user-agent pointing to a link
> describing the purpose for this check?

It uses a desktop user agent to more closely mimic what a user would
experience. Are there any standard headers that such status checks should be
sending to identify themselves?

> Can this check be disabled for us?

Given this check amounts to fewer than 150 requests annually, I'm hoping that
won't be necessary.


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