[Xvid-devel] URL for version checking, SVN tag for 1.3.5

Michael Militzer michael at xvid.org
Tue Feb 12 13:00:55 CET 2019


Hi,

the parent URL of the download links now lists all ever available  
source tarballs:

https://downloads.xvid.com/downloads/

Best regards,
Michael


Quoting Michael Militzer <michael at xvid.org>:

> Hi,
>
> 1. You can bypass the WAF protection and still curl the site if you
> set a user agent header that looks more like a browser, e.g.:
>
> curl -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64)
> AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/72.0.3626.81
> Safari/537.36" "https://labs.xvid.com/source/"
>
> But I'll check if we can provide something better than that...
>
> 2. Tag for the 1.3.5 release is added in SVN
>
> Best regards,
> Michael
>
>
>
> Quoting Christopher Chavez <chrischavez at gmx.us>:
>
>> Hi, a couple of questions:
>>
>> 1. Is there a URL that can be programmatically checked for the
>> latest Xvid codec version? This would be desirable for downstream
>> package management (specifically MacPorts). Currently labs.xvid.com
>> can’t be loaded from e.g. curl due to Cloudflare protection.
>>
>> 2. The 1.3.5 release seems to have never been tagged in SVN, could a
>>  tag still be added for it?
>>
>> Thanks
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