[Question] Sustainability of method?

[geckolinux]

Very cool project! So if I understand the fetch-macos.py script correctly, it seems to pull the macOS image directly from Apple's CDN? That is more robust than I expected, figured it would just be a third party server that Apple could quickly get taken down. But with that being said, I see the script needs a User-Agent to connect to the Apple CDN and SDS; couldn't Apple quickly revoke that apparently anonymous useragent?

[deftdawg]

They could, then a new way would have to be found.... why are you opening an issue for this?

[geckolinux]

I like to know how stuff works and if I could potentially use something like this in the long term. But feel free to delete this issue if you think it's out of place or risky to your project.

[foxlet]

The string comes from the actual macOS Installer app as distributed on the App Store (and has been distributed for many years). If they banned the User-Agent they would also ban all the existing macOS Installers on legitimate Macs.

[geckolinux]

Interesting, thanks for the explanation. Again, feel free to delete this issue if you think it will cause problems.