[Interest] IFW issue: HTTP request returns a Not Acceptable

[Mårten Nordheim]

Hey,

I used curl a bit to test things out with the address you provided. The 
request is rejected by "Mod_Security" seemingly due to the User-Agent. 
The options here are limited since it seems IFW doesn't let you change 
User-Agent ( https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTIFW-671 ). Is it possible 
for you to lighten the restriction on the User-Agent in ModSecurity in 
this case?

Mårten


On 18.09.2018 01:33, Kevin Wang wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am attempting to utilize the Qt Installer Framework for our 
> company's software. I am just starting out and am running into some 
> issues.
>
> I uploaded the generated repo to our website, and linked the repo in 
> the installer. When I run the installer and attempt to fetch the 
> remote repo tree, it returns this:
>
>     "Cannot retrieve remote tree. "
>
> Using the --verbose option, it says this:
>
>     [1744] Network error while downloading
>     'http://www.spikegadgets.com/downloads/onlinesoftwarerepo/Updates.xml?-763156944':
>     Error transferring
>     http://www.spikegadgets.com/downloads/onlinesoftwarerepo/Updates.xml?-763156944
>     - server replied: Not Acceptable.
>     [1745] Cannot fetch a valid version of Updates.xml from repository
>     "": "unexpected character"
>     [1751] Cannot retrieve remote tree .
>
> You can even go to the link above in a browser and see that it is 
> uploaded properly.
>
> I sniffed out the HTTP request and it showed that the IFW sent this:
>
>     GET /downloads/onlinesoftwarerepo/Updates.xml?-915259074 HTTP/1.1
>     Connection: Keep-Alive
>     Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
>     Accept-Language: en-US,*
>     User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
>     Host: www.spikegadgets.com
>
>
> So I have absolutely no experience in web servers and HTTP requests 
> and such. The website and FTP was set up for us, which I used to 
> upload the repo. To me, the issue seems to be that the Installer 
> framework is sending a HTTP request for an encoding that doesn't make 
> sense ("Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate" for a .xml file?).
>
> Is there something I am missing? Doing wrong? What should I look into 
> to fix this?
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
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