Just got an email from Maxmind: As of Wednesday, May 1, 2024, we will use R2 presigned URLs for all database downloads in order to increase the security and reliability of our services. Does anyone know whether this affects Discourse’s Maxmind usage?

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[image] Arkshine: However, from what I see in the code, it doesn’t follow redirection: This will likely fail. It does. [image] Fail to download maxmind db with valid key & can download the DB from inside container Bug Does it work better with follo…

I wonder whether they recently started using redirects before implementing the presigned URLs.

I just know that changing the code to allow redirects makes it work.

I was about to start looking to see whether there were any tests that would fail with that change, and you beat me to it! :smiling_face:

Well, it was a single word, and I’d already been hacking at the code on a live site, so it wasn’t that hard. Looks like all of the automated tests passed. . .

Oh, I’d been thinking that I would have to remember how to run all the tests locally, and I’ve reinstalled since the last time I did that so I was pretty sure that would be a rabbit hole of finding and installing dependencies… Just let the automation take care of it is smart. :smiling_face:

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) March 23, 2024, 1:35pm 6

It does.

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/26333

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