[Python-Dev] code.python.org - random 403 errors

[Stefan Krah]

Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com> wrote:
> I am seeing random 403 errors when cloning the mercurial repositories of Python.
> 
> $ hg clone http://code.python.org/hg/branches/release2.6-maint
> destination directory: release2.6-maint
> requesting all changes
> abort: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
> $ hg clone http://code.python.org/hg/branches/release2.6-maint/
> destination directory: release2.6-maint
> requesting all changes
> abort: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
> 
> Sometimes they work, sometimes not.

In general python.org seems flaky today. Sometimes I could not reach the site
at all, now a ping to svn.python.org gives 30% packet loss.


Stefan Krah