action failing with a 403 on Alpine etc

[ljharb]

You can see this on your own actions here: https://github.com/Vampire/setup-wsl/actions/runs/6844395408/job/18608259622

[Vampire]

Yeah, I'm already looking into it.
Thanks for the issue though.
Seems something changed on the WSL distribution download sites.

[ljharb]

I’d be happy to help track it down; unfortunately the action doesn’t log what URL it’s trying to download and i can’t find it in the code.

[Vampire]

This part: https://github.com/Vampire/setup-wsl/blob/master/src/main/kotlin/net/kautler/github/action/setup_wsl/Distribution.kt#L61-L71
with this argument for productId: https://github.com/Vampire/setup-wsl/blob/master/src/main/kotlin/net/kautler/github/action/setup_wsl/Distribution.kt#L438

And locally for example using HTTPie it works perfetly fine.

[Vampire]

And also using HTTPie from GitHub action machine from inside a Debian WSL distribution works fine.
And also calling that code in the action locally works fine.
It just fails when doing it in the real situation. :-/

[ljharb]

Maybe they blocked some traffic that happens to target GitHub Actions?

[Vampire]

Maybe, but then why does it work from within a WSL distribution on the GHA runner?
Should probably be the same outgoing ip.

[craigloewen-msft]

From the link I saw your code is querying against the Store. You can also view the WSL distros with links to the appx files here on the WSL repo: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/master/distributions/DistributionInfo.json

[Vampire]

For most distros I use the short-links listed at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual#downloading-distributions.
Only for those where not shortlink exists or existed when I added them, I request the link from the store.
In the course of this, I now use shortlinks for all but Alpine.
But for Alpine there is still no short-link and it is also not listed on the page you showed.
But thanks for the link anyway.

[Vampire]

I really have a hard time getting it.
I'm logged in to the running GitHub agent.
I have a Debian WSL distribution installed.
On Windows itself there is Python 3.9.13.
In the WSL Debian there is Python 3.9.2.
On both Pythons I have HTTPie 3.2.2 installed.
https://www.whois-my-ip.com/api/v1/ip returns the same for both.
But the very same HTTPie call for both http -fp HBhm POST https://store.rg-adguard.net/api/GetFiles type=ProductId url=9p804crf0395 works from WSL but fails from Windows.
The headers and body sent for both is eactly the same.
grml

[Vampire]

And also using https://echo.free.beeceptor.com instead of https://store.rg-adguard.net/api/GetFiles echoes back the exact same values, except for the date.

[Vampire]

I started a discussion at actions/runner-images#8791, maybe there someone has some idea. :-/