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Re:Sourcehut will blacklist the Go module mirror by tylersmith on Monday January 09, 2023 @11:34AM (#34312245)
> I didn't notice any details about how go module mirror will be blocked.

It says in the post they'll check the UserAgent for the Go proxy string and return a 429 code.

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Re:Sourcehut will blacklist the Go module mirror by 65a on Monday January 09, 2023 @12:08PM (#34312676)
That's especially silly because 429 is a retriable error
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Re:Sourcehut will blacklist the Go module mirror by TeMPOraL on Monday January 09, 2023 @12:14PM (#34312743)
Sure, but with it, the biggest impact will likely be... spam in logs on the Google side. Short-circuiting a request from a specific user agent to a 429 error code is cheap, compared to performing a full git clone instead.
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