Issue with files.basex.org availability?

Von: Amanda Galtman via BaseX-Talk <basex-talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 3. September 2026 16:00 An: BaseX Betreff: [basex-talk] Issue with files.basex.org availability? Hi, BaseX Team. In recent days, I've been seeing many sporadic issues when a GitHub Actions process tries to download BaseX. Errors look like this one from https://github.com/xspec/xspec/actions/runs/33736678541/job/100588783902 : [get] Error getting https://files.basex.org/releases/12.4/BaseX124.zip to C:\Users\RUNNER~1\AppData\Local\Temp\basex_deleteonexit_448872441.zip The message above is on Windows, but the problem isn't OS-specific. The problem eventually resolves when I rerun the job one or more times, but having to do that multiple times in a day is getting to be a hassle. One strange thing is that when I clicked the link manually, it worked -- even close to the time that the automated process reported the error. Does anyone know what is going on? Thanks, Amanda

On Monday, September 7th, 2026 at 4:58 AM, Christian Grün <cg at basex.org> wrote: > Hi Amanda, > > That’s good to know. As far as I can see, your pipeline is working again. Please send us a signal if it happens again. > > Best, > Christian > ________________________________________ > > Von: Amanda Galtman via BaseX-Talk <basex-talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 3. September 2026 16:00 > An: BaseX > Betreff: [basex-talk] Issue with files.basex.org availability? > > Hi, BaseX Team. > > In recent days, I've been seeing many sporadic issues when a GitHub Actions process tries to download BaseX. Errors look like this one from https://github.com/xspec/xspec/actions/runs/33736678541/job/100588783902 : > > [get] Error getting https://files.basex.org/releases/12.4/BaseX124.zip to C:\Users\RUNNER~1\AppData\Local\Temp\basex_deleteonexit_448872441.zip > > The message above is on Windows, but the problem isn't OS-specific. > > The problem eventually resolves when I rerun the job one or more times, but having to do that multiple times in a day is getting to be a hassle. One strange thing is that when I clicked the link manually, it worked -- even close to the time that the automated process reported the error. > > Does anyone know what is going on? > > Thanks, > Amanda > >

On Monday, September 7th, 2026 at 3:41 PM, Michael Seiferle <ms at basex.org> wrote: > Hi Amanda, > > it's Michael from BaseX. > > Christian and I just talked about how your requests were failing again. I suspect our hosting company might be blocking requests that it thinks are from automated crawlers or bots. > To better handle these kinds of patterns, we set up a CDN. > > If you could retry your failed pipelines, it would be interesting to see if this helped solve this issue. > > Best wishes from Konstanz > Michael > >> Am 07.09.2026 um 10:58 schrieb Christian Grün via BaseX-Talk <basex-talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de>: >> >> Hi Amanda,

On Monday, September 7th, 2026 at 8:51 PM, Amanda Galtman via BaseX-Talk <basex-talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de> wrote: > Michael and Christian, > > Thank you very much for your help! > > The initial signs are good -- all 5 retries (2 in main repo, 3 in my fork) worked. I'll keep an eye on this in the next several days, too. > > Best regards, > Amanda > On Monday, September 7th, 2026 at 3:41 PM, Michael Seiferle <ms at basex.org> wrote: > >> Hi Amanda, >> >> it's Michael from BaseX. >> >> Christian and I just talked about how your requests were failing again. I suspect our hosting company might be blocking requests that it thinks are from automated crawlers or bots. >> To better handle these kinds of patterns, we set up a CDN. >> >> If you could retry your failed pipelines, it would be interesting to see if this helped solve this issue. >> >> Best wishes from Konstanz >> Michael >> >>> Am 07.09.2026 um 10:58 schrieb Christian Grün via BaseX-Talk <basex-talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de>: >>> >>> Hi Amanda,