Building problems due to jsdelivr outages

[pchemguy]

Since yesterday, I am having serious troubles with jsdelivr, and the SQLPage build script does not handle this (rare/unlikely?) issue in a robust fashion. (And I mean that this problem occurs with both my "amended" build process and the regular build process cargo build or cargo build --profile superoptimized.) The build script gets essentially locked without any feedback at the end while attempting to download the js/css assets. I had an instance where it froze for more than 12 min. I also independently (of the build script) confirmed jsdelivr problems by attempting to browse it and downloading the target assets manually. I am not sure whether this is just me, my location, or a global issue.

[lovasoa]

I had the same issues while I was in Russia. It seems to work fine in the rest of the world. I already reported the issue upstream in awc. In the meantime, you can manually download the assets and place them in the target directory: NixOS/nixpkgs#310436 (comment)

[lovasoa]

@pchemguy , since I cannot reproduce the issue anymore, maybe you can help investigate it in actix/actix-web#3382

[pchemguy]

@lovasoa, you are saying in that issue you could download the assets directly without problems. As I mentioned in my report, I observed the same connectivity problems when tried to browse the website and download the resources. I did not wait for the browsing failure, but it also kept trying to access resources for while without reporting a connection failure. And sometimes it reported failed a connection right away. So the problem might be country specific, but I do not think it is application/library specific. It very well might be related to the state activities aimed at filtering/eavesdropping the traffic.