Validation failing for podspecs with Twitter URLs #10291

CFKevinRef · 2020-12-18T18:30:09Z

Our CI job validating podspecs started failing yesterday with:

 - WARN  | url: The URL (https://twitter.com/awscloud) is not reachable.
...
[!] AmazonIVSPlayer did not pass validation, due to 1 warning (but you can use `--allow-warnings` to ignore it).

Looked into the history around similar issues like #9049. curl with the CocoaPods user agent no longer returns 200. Other/empty user agents didn't help.

Twitter recently cut off some basic HTTP GET capabilities, which seems related as this coincides with our CI job failing.

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What did you do?

Run pod lib lint

What did you expect to happen?

Validation to pass, no changes were made recently to the podspec in question.

What happened instead?

Validation fails due to twitter URLs being "not reachable"

CocoaPods Environment

I don't have access to this at the moment, but the CI was using CocoaPods 1.9.3 and then 1.10.0 with no change in behavior.

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dnkoutso · 2020-12-18T18:36:43Z

There are two workarounds here, --allow-warnings or remove the twitter website until a proper fix is done.

paulb777 · 2020-12-19T00:37:14Z

We temporarily remove the twitter link for our pod lib lint testing in CI. See here.

See CocoaPods/CocoaPods#10291

- WARN | url: The URL (https://twitter.com/ElfSundae) is not reachable.

Cocoapods lib linting is throwing a warning on the twitter link used in the Podspec file. Warnings need to be allowed while this issue isn't fixed: CocoaPods/CocoaPods#10291

…ods/CocoaPods#10291

See CocoaPods/CocoaPods#10291

saghul · 2021-02-02T10:26:21Z

Just ran into this myself. IMHO having the push command fail because a social media URL fails is too defensive. It could be transient failure, rate limit or what have you, but tat the end of the day, it doesn't compromise how the pod works. Please consider removing that check for the social media URLs. Thanks for all the work in CocoaPods! ❤️

Ticket with details: CocoaPods/CocoaPods#10291 Expected CocoaPods release with fixes: 1.10.2

manavo · 2021-02-06T11:17:21Z

I think the reason for this with Twitter specifically is because they seem to do User Agent checks to see if a browser is supported:

% curl -H 'User-Agent: Cocoapods' https://twitter.com/cocoapods
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html dir="ltr" lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8" />
  <meta name="viewport"
    content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1,user-scalable=0,viewport-fit=cover" />
  <style>
    body {
      -ms-overflow-style: scrollbar;
      overflow-y: scroll;
      overscroll-behavior-y: none;
    }

    .errorContainer {
      background-color: #FFF;
      color: #0F1419;
      max-width: 600px;
      margin: 0 auto;
      padding: 10%;
      font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;
      font-size: 16px;
    }

    .errorButton {
      margin: 3em 0;
    }

    .errorButton a {
      background: #1DA1F2;
      border-radius: 2.5em;
      color: white;
      padding: 1em 2em;
      text-decoration: none;
    }

    .errorButton a:hover,
    .errorButton a:focus {
      background: rgb(26, 145, 218);
    }

    .errorFooter {
      color: #657786;
      font-size: 80%;
      line-height: 1.5;
      padding: 1em 0;
    }

    .errorFooter a,
    .errorFooter a:visited {
      color: #657786;
      text-decoration: none;
      padding-right: 1em;
    }

    .errorFooter a:hover,
    .errorFooter a:active {
      text-decoration: underline;
    }

  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <div class="errorContainer">
    <img width="46" height="38"
      srcset="https://abs.twimg.com/errors/logo46x38.png 1x, https://abs.twimg.com/errors/logo46x38@2x.png 2x"
      src="https://abs.twimg.com/errors/logo46x38.png" alt="Twitter" />
    <h1>This browser is no longer supported.</h1>
    <p>
      Please switch to a supported browser to continue using twitter.com. You can see a list of supported browsers in our Help Center.
    </p>
    <p class="errorButton"><a href="https://help.twitter.com/using-twitter/twitter-supported-browsers">Help Center</a>
    </p>
    <p class="errorFooter">
      <a href="https://twitter.com/tos">Terms of Service</a>
      <a href="https://twitter.com/privacy">Privacy Policy</a>
      <a href="https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170514">Cookie Policy</a>
      <a href="https://legal.twitter.com/imprint">Imprint</a>
      <a href="https://business.twitter.com/en/help/troubleshooting/how-twitter-ads-work.html">Ads info</a>
      © 2021 Twitter, Inc.
    </p>

  </div>
</body>
</html>

If we used a "normal" browser user agent, the Twitter validation should work.

Not submitting a PR for this since it's debatable if that's a good idea, just thought I'd mention why this is happening!

fxm90 added a commit to fxm90/GradientProgressBar that referenced this issue Dec 20, 2020

♻️ :: Remove Twitter URL to fix pod lib lint

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See CocoaPods/CocoaPods#10291

fxm90 added a commit to fxm90/LightweightObservable that referenced this issue Dec 20, 2020

♻️ :: Remove Twitter URL to fix pod lib lint

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See CocoaPods/CocoaPods#10291

fxm90 added a commit to fxm90/GradientLoadingBar that referenced this issue Dec 20, 2020

♻️ :: Remove Twitter URL to fix pod lib lint

98e66fd

See CocoaPods/CocoaPods#10291

ElfSundae added a commit to ElfSundae/ESFramework that referenced this issue Jan 2, 2021

Add --allow-warnings for pod lib lint CocoaPods/CocoaPods#10291

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- WARN | url: The URL (https://twitter.com/ElfSundae) is not reachable.

tobihagemann added a commit to cryptomator/cryptolib-swift that referenced this issue Jan 5, 2021

Removed social_media_url in Podspec to fix pod lib lint, see CocoaP…

02d28a0

…ods/CocoaPods#10291

tobihagemann added a commit to cryptomator/cloud-access-swift that referenced this issue Jan 5, 2021

Removed social_media_url in Podspec to fix pod lib lint, see CocoaP…

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…ods/CocoaPods#10291

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mukeshthawani added a commit to Kommunicate-io/Kommunicate-iOS-SDK that referenced this issue Jan 19, 2021

Remove social_media_url to fix pod lint \n See CocoaPods/CocoaPods#10291

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mukeshthawani added a commit to Kommunicate-io/Kommunicate-iOS-SDK that referenced this issue Jan 19, 2021

Remove 'social_media_url' from podspec to fix pod lint

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See CocoaPods/CocoaPods#10291

paulb777 mentioned this issue Feb 2, 2021

Change URL validation failure to a note #10398

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OdNairy added a commit to mapbox/mapbox-events-ios that referenced this issue Feb 5, 2021

Disable twitter link as CocoaPods cannot lint it

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Ticket with details: CocoaPods/CocoaPods#10291 Expected CocoaPods release with fixes: 1.10.2

OdNairy added a commit to mapbox/mapbox-events-ios that referenced this issue Feb 5, 2021

Disable twitter link as CocoaPods cannot lint it

88f4877

Ticket with details: CocoaPods/CocoaPods#10291 Expected CocoaPods release with fixes: 1.10.2

OdNairy added a commit to mapbox/mapbox-events-ios that referenced this issue Feb 5, 2021

Disable twitter link as CocoaPods cannot lint it

79353fe

Ticket with details: CocoaPods/CocoaPods#10291 Expected CocoaPods release with fixes: 1.10.2

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Validation failing for podspecs with Twitter URLs #10291

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CFKevinRef commented Dec 18, 2020

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Validation failing for podspecs with Twitter URLs #10291

Validation failing for podspecs with Twitter URLs #10291

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CFKevinRef commented Dec 18, 2020

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