hplipWIthPlugin: curl for hplip-3.24.4-plugin.run returns error 403

[chris3k]

Nixpkgs version

• Stable (24.11)

Describe the bug

hplip plugin fetch step fails with error 403 when trying to download https://developers.hp.com/sites/default/files/hplip-3.24.4-plugin.run using curl with default user-agent.

To fix this set user-agent to Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.159 Safari/537.36 or download plugin from https://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/auxfiles/HP/plugins/

Steps to reproduce

# NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1 nix-shell -p hplipWithPlugin
these 2 derivations will be built:
  /nix/store/3szdhxqbxk0npbf1ihqkdhqb7qidv6gj-hplip-3.24.4-plugin.run.drv
  /nix/store/1bjgqk33yza4qbxdll593aidydwgd223-hplip-3.24.4.drv
building '/nix/store/3szdhxqbxk0npbf1ihqkdhqb7qidv6gj-hplip-3.24.4-plugin.run.drv'...

trying https://developers.hp.com/sites/default/files/hplip-3.24.4-plugin.run
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 403
error: cannot download hplip-3.24.4-plugin.run from any mirror
error: builder for '/nix/store/3szdhxqbxk0npbf1ihqkdhqb7qidv6gj-hplip-3.24.4-plugin.run.drv' failed with exit code 1
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/1bjgqk33yza4qbxdll593aidydwgd223-hplip-3.24.4.drv' failed to build

Expected behaviour

install hplip with plugin and enter to shell

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System metadata

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 6.13.7, NixOS, 24.11 (Vicuna), 24.11.715880.b75693fb46bf
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: yes
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.24.12
• channels(kg): "unstable"
• channels(root): "nixos-24.11"
• nixpkgs: /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos

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[chris3k]

this patch fixes the problem, but I am not sure if we want to hardcode user agent

diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/hp/hplip/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/hp/hplip/package.nix
index 024369818..061f610b4 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/hp/hplip/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/hp/hplip/package.nix
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ let
   plugin = fetchurl {
     url = "https://developers.hp.com/sites/default/files/${pname}-${version}-plugin.run";
     hash = "sha256-Hzxr3SVmGoouGBU2VdbwbwKMHZwwjWnI7P13Z6LQxao=";
+    curlOptsList = ["-A" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.159 Safari/537.36"];
   };
 
   hplipState = replaceVars ./hplip.state {

[scarlet-storm]

I was able to fix this by overriding the user agent as mentioned earlier.
Maybe we can use a mirror instead
https://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/auxfiles/HP/plugins/

[scarlet-storm]

Should be fixed by #391529

[psentee]

FWIW, once you prefetch the file into the nix store (e.g. by :b pkgs.fetchurl { …; curlOptsList = […]; } in a nix shell - maybe there's some prefetch script that will do the trick, but this way I was sure the output hash will be same as the one used by the package), the unpatched package builds just fine.

[chris3k]

FWIW, once you prefetch the file into the nix store (e.g. by :b pkgs.fetchurl { …; curlOptsList = […]; } in a nix shell - maybe there's some prefetch script that will do the trick, but this way I was sure the output hash will be same as the one used by the package), the unpatched package builds just fine.

as ad-hoc solution this workaround with manual prefetch works for me as well.

[markus1189]

Also used the ad-hoc solution via nix-repl:

pkgs.fetchurl {
  url = "https://developers.hp.com/sites/default/files/hplip-3.24.4-plugin.run";
  hash = "sha256-Hzxr3SVmGoouGBU2VdbwbwKMHZwwjWnI7P13Z6LQxao=";
  curlOptsList = [
    "-A"
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.159 Safari/537.36"
  ];
}