Adding remote file fails

[2ndalpha]

Adding https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/raw/master/hosts fails

[ghariib]

Just wanted to ask, if you are going to fix this bug. With kind regards.

[2ndalpha]

Unfortunately I don't have time for it. If anyone else is up for the task I'm happy to merge the PR and do a release.

[Roccobot]

Let's donate some bucks to this guy

[ifyour]

Let's donate some bucks to this guy +1😂

[Liam0205]

Encountered the same problem with the OP.

It shows that Can't download the hosts file. It contains HTML page.

No idea about what to do.

[cjf]

It fails because of the way it fetches files. It's not capable of getting https links using the method it does.

HostsDownloader:sendRequestHeader will fail with https. Someone would need to rewrite how it fetches files to support https.

[thepigeonoftime]

As a temporary workaround, search for "Non GitHub mirror" on https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts , the links are plain HTTP so they work with gasmask.

[mmower]

I don't have the time or patience to download a 5.5GB Xcode image right now but I might have a go at fixing this later.

It appears there is a home-made HTTP client in HostsDownloader.m. Given the age of the code there may not have been a simple HTTP library available for Obj-C developers when this was written. My guess is it would be relatively easy to replace with with either a newer NSURL API or by using something like AFNetworking.

I'll try and remember to come back around to this when I have a little more time.

[oliveratgithub]

Same issue here when trying to add a Hosts file from our internal GitLab server:

https://git.ourcompany.com/corporate/project/snippets/130/raw => Can't donwload the hosts file. It contains HTML page.

Would really appreciate a fix to support such Remote Hosts-file. Please also consider, that they may require a login (which is, what in this case might produce the - correct? - "Containt HTML page"-error, because the request will be forwarded to the authentication page which indeed contains HTML?)

[michael1900]

Hi, when this bug will be fixed? Also for example with other link the error says: object not recognizes or something similar, i think the problem in this case are all the space between two row. Is it possible to fix also this bug. Really many links are rejected for this problem. Thanks

[thepigeonoftime]

@oliveratgithub @michael1900

for the moment it seems the only option is to use non https resources, if you happen to have a vps with nginx on it you can set up a reverse proxy that serves the https resource as plain http. There should be other ways to do ssl termination as well.

I may look into adding ssl support myself (no promises).

[receptor]

We have now PR https://github.com/2ndalpha/gasmask/pull/155 thanks to @softwarebouwer, which fixes this issue and the related https://github.com/2ndalpha/gasmask/issues/154. I guess it also makes https://github.com/2ndalpha/gasmask/issues/149 obsolete for now. @2ndalpha, can you please merge that and make a release?

[papaGregor]

I'm still having this problem with GM 0.8.6 and OS X 10.14.3. I tried an experiment:

Adding the Stephen Black file from the github URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts

produces this error:

Bad content. Can't download the hosts file. It contains unknown content.

However, adding the same file from the non-github mirror: http://sbc.io/hosts/hosts

loads the file perfectly.

I don't know how that will help with the debugging process, but hopefully it will. I did notice that the github URL is HTTPS, whereas the non-github is HTTP...

[MuntashirAkon]

This is the latest binary built using Xcode 10.3. It should solve the problem. Gas Mask.app.zip

[JayBrown]

Same problem here. Even if you go for the raw link, you'll get a "bad content" error.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/x0uid/SpotifyAdBlock/master/hosts

[JayBrown]

The build shared by @MuntashirAkon crashed on 10.14.6.