Error trying to download the V1 and V2 files with current version number

[JoeWinograd]

Hi Folks,
I've been using two scripts for many years to download the current AHK version number, compare it to what I'm running, and offer to download the installer or ZIP file. The download of the V1 and V2 files with the version number stopped working sometime within the past few days. I extracted a small portion of the scripts to show the problem:

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; this is for V2
fileCurrentVersion:=A_Temp . "\AutoHotkeyCurrentVersionV2.txt"
urlCurrentVersion:="https://www.autohotkey.com/download/2.0/version.txt"
Try Download(urlCurrentVersion,fileCurrentVersion)
Catch Error as DownloadError
{
  DownloadErrorMessage:=DownloadError.Message
  MsgBox("Error Message " . DownloadErrorMessage . " trying to download V2 version number`n`nURL=" . urlCurrentVersion . "`n`nFile=" . fileCurrentVersion,"AutoHotkey V2 Download Failed","4112")
  ExitApp
}
Run fileCurrentVersion
ExitApp

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; this is for V1
fileCurrentVersion:=A_Temp . "\AutoHotkeyCurrentVersionV1.txt"
urlCurrentVersion:="https://www.autohotkey.com/download/1.1/version.txt"
UrlDownloadToFile,%urlCurrentVersion%,%fileCurrentVersion%
If (ErrorLevel!=0)
{
  MsgBox,4112,AutoHotkey V1 Download Failed,Error Level=%ErrorLevel% trying to download V1 version number`n`nURL=%urlCurrentVersion%`n`nFile=%fileCurrentVersion%
  ExitApp
}
Run,%fileCurrentVersion%
ExitApp

Each of those snippets should download then open the text file with the version number (which they've done for the last many years), but are now producing an error:

AutoHotkey v2 version number download failed.png (11.28 KiB) Viewed 4136 times

AutoHotkey v1 version number download failed.png (10.65 KiB) Viewed 4136 times

I don't know if this should be characterized as a "Bug Report", but it seemed as good a place as any to post it. But an admin should move it to a more appropriate place, if need be. Btw, going to those files in a web browser works fine, so the "bug" would seem to be related to the download feature. Regards, Joe

[TAC109]

Problems like this occur when the AutoHotkey administrators turn on Cloudflare monitoring, which can inject ‘I am not a robot' code into the interaction.

All should return to normal when the Cloudflare monitoring is switched off.

Cheers

[JoeWinograd]

Hi TAC,
Thanks for the explanation...much appreciated! Cheers, Joe

[TAC109]

@joedf Do you still have some Cloudflare restrictions in place? UrlDownloadToFile from the AutoHotkey site is still not working.

Cheers

[joedf]

No, just checked Cloudflare WAF / firewall rules, Hosting panel firewall, server iptables, and .htaccess files.... Didnt find anything blocking.... We even whitelist the /download/* folder on cloudflare...
I think there's something I'm missing.
Maybe @tank knows?

Interesting / weird, I can do wget and curl just fine...
I even tried https://www.autohotkey.com/download/versions.txt
All working with wget or curl but not UrlDownloadToFile...

[TAC109]

Thanks for looking into this @joedf.
I’m also having problems using UrlDownloadToFile on https://www.autohotkey.com/mpress/mpress.219.zip, used in the Ahk2Exe Updater.

Cheers

[tank]

really sounds like a problem based on useragent, possible i broke it the other day

[joedf]

Oh useragent!!! Right, makes sense. Didnt even cross my mind.

[JoeWinograd]

Hi Folks,
I don't know if anyone is looking into this, but just a quick note to say that, as of a few minutes ago, it is still not working (neither V1 nor V2). Regards, Joe

[joedf]

Weird, https://autohotkey.com/download/1.1/version.txt works for me...

[kczx3]

Weird, https://autohotkey.com/download/1.1/version.txt works for me...

It only does not work when using URLDownloadToFile or Download...

[gregster]

Interestingly, the respective codes from example #4 (asynchronous HTTP request) work for me in v1 and v2:
https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/v2/lib/Download.htm#ExXHR
https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/v1/lib/URLDownloadToFile.htm#XHR

[kczx3]

I tried them and they didn't work. The WinHTTP example timed out and the XMLHttpRequest example gave error 12031.

[joedf]

okay, wierd... Works on one PC but not on my other PC...

[tank]

I have looked at every setting relted to firewall or cloudflare,
this one is very strange

[JoeWinograd]

Works on one PC but not on my other PC

Fails on every PC here that I've tried it on, including W8.1, W10, and W11. Still happening...just tried it on all three of those systems...both V1 and V2. Hoping someone can fix this. Regards, Joe

[tank]

I wish I had even an error message

[JoeWinograd]

I get the feeling that it has something to do with the https://www.autohotkey.com domain, as downloads from other domains work. For example, the downloads work fine in the scripts I posted with this URL:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AutoHotkey/AutoHotkey/alpha/license.txt

Also, it's not just the version files that fail...downloads of the EXE and ZIP files fail, too. As a temporary solution, would it be possible to host the downloads elsewhere until the https://www.autohotkey.com downloads are fixed?

[joedf]

I would just do github for now... You can use the GitHub API
https://api.github.com/repos/AutoHotkey/AutoHotkey/releases/latest

https://docs.github.com/en/rest/releases/releases?apiVersion=2022-11-28#get-the-latest-release

[JoeWinograd]

Thanks for the idea. although I don't see anything with V1 in it at the first link. I know that V1 is deprecated, but I have high hopes that we may see something beyond 1.1.37.02, especially if a future version of Windows makes it necessary. It is not feasible to convert from V1 to V2 all the programs (or even the most important ones) that I wrote, including the required supporting libraries that I did not write.