18 Nov
2025
18 Nov
'25
8:16 p.m.
I just got [an issue in the ASDF repo](https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf/-/issues/171) where a user reports that the Anubis prevents software from downloading ASDF tarballs. In our documentation for the project, we tell the users to grab https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf/-/archive/3.3.7/asdf-3.3.7.tar.gz But if you do that with `curl` or `wget`, you get an HTML page instead of the desired tarball. Is it possible to put a tarball somewhere that it can be automatically retrieved? Or is this impossible with the new flooding protection? In which case we would need to figure out some other way to provide tarballs and other binary blobs. Thanks, R