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python-requests.org domain suspended.

Open brunns opened this issue 3 years ago • 12 comments
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http://python-requests.org/ is showing:

Screenshot 2022-05-23 at 07 15 12

It's the same case for subdomains, including docs.python-requests.org, which is breaking the building of sphinx documentation which refer to requests docs: see https://github.com/brunns/mbtest/runs/6549875114?check_suite_focus=true#step:9:31 for an example.

brunns avatar May 23 '22 06:05 brunns

Hi @brunns, thanks for bringing this to our attention. The domain is still owned by Kenneth and the maintainers haven't had access to it in quite some time.

We'll reach out to Kenneth regarding the domain verification. I wanted to quickly confirm though that https://docs.python-requests.org is working for you. I'm still seeing the docs rendered correctly at that subdomain.

nateprewitt avatar May 23 '22 06:05 nateprewitt

Strange - nope, I'm seeing that same error at https://docs.python-requests.org. I wonder if that's just me?

brunns avatar May 23 '22 06:05 brunns

It may be a CDN caching issue. My hunch would be once those expire, I'll be seeing the same.

nateprewitt avatar May 23 '22 07:05 nateprewitt

I can confirm this, https://docs.python-requests.org is not working for me, either.

pajot avatar May 23 '22 08:05 pajot

A temporary and partial fix might be to stop http://requests.readthedocs.org/ redirecting to https://docs.python-requests.org/?

brunns avatar May 23 '22 08:05 brunns

I can access https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/ fine, but our intersphinx links are failing due to cert domain mismatch

da1910 avatar May 23 '22 09:05 da1910

FWIW, https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/ redirects to https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/ for me, which 404s.

brunns avatar May 23 '22 10:05 brunns

For https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/ I get an SSL error from Chrome:

This server could not prove that it is docs.python-requests.org; 
its security certificate is from *.ispapi.net. 
This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection.

...and then a 404 if I do get through.

cjw296 avatar May 23 '22 10:05 cjw296

Hi I am seeing the same... image

YChanHuang avatar May 23 '22 10:05 YChanHuang

Going to lock this discussion to contributors-only as the issue won't be fixed any faster with additional comments. If you're interested in following when the fix happens you can subscribe to this issue.

sethmlarson avatar May 23 '22 14:05 sethmlarson

For those looking for alternatives, https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ should be returning docs correctly again. This has been the "official" location for some time as we lack controls on the python-requests domains. I'll update again once we receive a response from Kenneth.

nateprewitt avatar May 23 '22 19:05 nateprewitt

Providing a quick update for users following the issue. I've spoken with Kenneth, but we do not have a clear path to recovering the domain. We'd advise anyone currently blocked by this (or anyone providing resources with links to requests) to use https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ as the primary domain. This matches what has been in the public docs since 2019 and represents what the current maintainers control.

nateprewitt avatar Jun 16 '22 16:06 nateprewitt