Error upgrading `vnc-viewer` cask

[andrioli]

Error upgrading `vnc-viewer` cask

[miccal]

|-> brew fetch vnc-viewer
==> Downloading https://downloads.realvnc.com/download/file/viewer.files/VNC-Viewer-7.11.0-MacOSX-universal.dmg
################################################################################################################ 100.0%
Downloaded to: /Users/00084858/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/a911ac617d03c111550bcbc4d5b00d634ca2b144438eb9ffad57d2677ea62a65--VNC-Viewer-7.11.0-MacOSX-universal.dmg
SHA256: 1d8babba6a2cf80d9005b909bbeef1d6db399384df76ac967ed5b0b0010ba80c

[andrioli]

reminded about this issue by the bot...

testing in my phone looks that the WAF is not being used anymore (download started automatically). I didn't tested on my computer, so I don't know if is some rule for phones only, IDK.

maybe we can close the issue, just need a confirmation that will work on the computer

[andrioli]

Looks that they are using Amazon WAF. Since this was made on purpose from Real VNC side, there is any workaround to ignore the upgrade of this cask from my side?

[akkis]

I have the same issue on my brand new macbook pro. Probably they'll fix it. The only difference is the brew tap output. Mine reads:

ddev/ddev
teamookla/speedtest

[gauravahuja]

I did the following workaround to upgrade vnc-viewer.

1. Run brew upgrade -v
2. Find the location where brew would have downloaded the vnc-viewer image. The filename should have the extension incomplete
3. Manually download vnc-viewer from the url and move it to the location from the logs but without the incomplete extension.
4. Run brew upgrade -v to finish the upgrade

In my case the location was /Users/gaurav/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/4fe8ac75fc4b60b321497ac24fbc42ea1f77510e2650c00907ddc13286547782--VNC-Viewer-7.10.0-MacOSX-universal.dmg.incomplete. So I manually dowloaded and moved it to the location but without the incomplete extension

==> Upgrading vnc-viewer
==> Downloading https://downloads.realvnc.com/download/file/viewer.files/VNC-Viewer-7.10.0-MacOSX-universal.dmg
/usr/bin/env /opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/shims/shared/curl --disable --cookie /dev/null --globoff --show-error --user-agent Homebrew/4.2.18\ \(Macintosh\;\ arm64\ Mac\ OS\ X\ 14.4.1\)\ curl/8.4.0 --header Accept-Language:\ en --fail --retry 3 --remote-time --output /Users/gaurav/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/4fe8ac75fc4b60b321497ac24fbc42ea1f77510e2650c00907ddc13286547782--VNC-Viewer-7.10.0-MacOSX-universal.dmg.incomplete --location https://downloads.realvnc.com/download/file/viewer.files/VNC-Viewer-7.10.0-MacOSX-universal.dmg

[andrioli]

I didn't found any workaround, so I uninstalled the cask and installed the application manually.

[krehel]

We may unfortunately have to drop this from Homebrew if the WAF is preventing normal access. Tagging @Homebrew/cask for opinions or if there's a prior art to dealing with this.

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