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<zimoun>rekado: guix environment --ad-hoc peek then peek returns (peek:2737): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: 10:15:53.886: Settings schema 'org.gnome.desktop.interface' is not installed on foreign distro

<zimoun>rekado: what could be other formats where the constraints are: light, work on any plateform with a few knowledge on what is installed, and self-contained (I do not know if the machine will have access to network for instance)

<zimoun>It is for showing prepared demos for a tuto running in conf

<civodul>o/

<civodul>zimoun: could it be JRES? :-)

<zimoun>civodul: yeah…

<zimoun>byzanz is nice except the duration fixed apriori

<civodul>yes, that's annoying

<civodul>you often have to do the same thing several times

<civodul>good luck :-)

<zimoun>rekado: when peek works, it is nice. Thank you for the tip. :-)

<civodul>i found this: https://events.cancer.gov/nci/cwig-webinar-series/webinars-past

<civodul>there's a surprise there for you workflow people!

<zimoun>rekado, give a look at https://ccwl.systemreboot.net/ which is what civodul is pointing, I guess. :-)

<civodul>zimoun: indeed :-)

<civodul>i'm not entirely sure what their motivation was, but i guess it's a good idea to explore the design space

<zimoun>Me neither. :-) I have not watched or read all. I miss how the binaries are controlled. Anyway. :-)

<rekado>oh, Arun wrote ccwl.

<rekado>hmm

<zimoun>civodul: how does http-request used by guix/shw.scm represent #:headers? I would like to pass "Authorization: Bearer eyJh…" but « #:headers (('authorization . "Bearer eyJh…")) » fails.

<zimoun>when curl -i -H "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/stat/counters/ | grep ^X-RateLimit works and say 1200 requests instead of 120

<rekado>e.g. like this `(authorization . (,algorithm (Credential . ,foo) (SignedHeaders . ,signed-headers) (Signature . ,signature)))

<rekado>I cons that onto the existing headers for the AWS authorization header.

<rekado>what I often do is to use netcat to listen on a local port and then use http-request against that local server

<zimoun>rekado: thanks. I have tried this: (http-request "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/stat/counters/" #:method 'POST #:headers '((authorization . (bearer . "eyJh…"))) but I miss why it does not work

<zimoun>or with 'GET too

<zimoun>I am trying the SWH Authentication; see bottom <https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/>

<zimoun>ahah! Found it :-) (http-request "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/stat/counters/" #:method 'GET #:headers '((authorization . (bearer eyJh))))

<zimoun>extra dot with (bearer <token>)

<rekado>I’m embarrassed to admit how much time I lost due to the format of header lists…

<zimoun>yeah, I agree. Hopefully, you saved me some time with your example. :-)

<zimoun>then I have tried the buggy example (parse-header 'authorization "Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ=="

<zimoun>buggy because missing closing parens :-)

<zimoun>with “my values“.

<zimoun>Now, I have 403 )-:

<rekado>does the generated HTTP request look correct, though?

<rekado>in my tests I eventually had to override the authorization header definition in the web server, because of an API quirk on the side of AWS

<rekado>(they don’t like the way a value was quoted)

<rekado>re ccwl: I think the GWL should also have ‘pipe’ and ‘tee’, and perhaps other combinators to hook up processes.

<zimoun>I do not understand how the web module works. The server answers code: 403 reason-phrase: "Forbidden" so something should be wrong with the header. Because it perfectly works using “curl -H”. I give up for this evening

<zimoun>rekado: interesting you speak about pipe. This afternoon, I was looking at this <http://www.fftw.org/~athena/hacks/pipe.scm>

<zimoun>because sometimes writing temporary files then reading them right after could avoided.

<rekado>zimoun: I really recommend comparing the actual text of the generated request by sending them to http://localhost:1234 and having “nc -l localhost 1234” in another terminal.

<rekado>the request that appears in your nc terminal should look the same as what “curl -H” prints

<zimoun>rekado, thanks. Indeed. Found why. I will post the solution :-)

<zimoun>however, nc -l does not print something

<zimoun>civodul: Authentication and SWH made a step this evening. :-) Thanks to rekado!

<zimoun>I checked for all the 236 Julia packages at once; archiving the few missing. Give a look at https://archive.softwareheritage.org/save/#requests

<civodul>zimoun: yay!

*civodul looks at the backlog

<civodul>zimoun: so you're looking at authentication because you have a magic SWH token without rate limiting? :-)

<zimoun>civodul: for now, I have a token with 1200 instead of 120

<zimoun>I am asking to them if I could have more :-)

<civodul>woow, well done

<civodul>i never got this far ;-)

<zimoun>civodul: See <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/51216> which add the environment variable GUIX_SWH_TOKEN. :-)

<civodul>zimoun: nice!

<civodul>the missing SWH directories are worrisome

<civodul>i guess we'll need their help to understand why some things are missing

<zimoun>yep, as you said, we are making progress. :-)

<zimoun>now, I want a “special“ token ;-)

<civodul>yeah it's nice that we can already get a slightly better view of the archival status

*civodul -> zZz

<civodul>happy hacking! :-)

<zimoun>me too, zZz and week-end!

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