[chef] Re: Re: Re: java::oracle recipe broken due to oracle now requiring browser cookie

[Ranjib Dey < >]

agreed ,

and also on the same line, i have faced similar requirements for different use cases where simple get/post functionality is needed for publishing / grabbing build artifacts, custom rpms etc, but since  chef is not meant to be a file server, i use a dedicated nginx instance(or apache ) to do this. It might not make sense for a single use case, but if you have multiple uses cases then it better to have a dedicated file server (http or nfs or webdav  based) for service files and then leverage them using the remote_file/http_request resource.

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Adam Jacob < "> > wrote:

Seems like a great reason to move to OpenJDK. My instinct would be that if they are going to this kind of length to get you to register/use a cookie, honor their request - by downloading it locally and fetching it repeatably from a local location. Or by moving to OpenJDK. 

Adam

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Bryan Berry < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

besides having your own local copy of java, I have found a way to download directly from oracle.com but it is quite heavyweight. It requires the installation of firefox, Xvfb (virtual X11 server), and the watir-webdriver and headless gems. There is no way around installing firefox as the oracle site requires _javascript_ to agree to their terms.

I am really wondering if this solution is so invasive that no one will use it. If someone has a better solution, pls let me know!

$ sudo apt-get install xvfb

$ gem install watir-webdriver headless

# downloads jdk 1.7
require 'watir-webdriver'
require 'headless'
headless = Headless.new

headless.start

profile = "Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new

profile['browser.download.folderList'] = 2

profile['browser.download.dir'] = '/tmp'

profile['browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk'] = "application/x-tar-gz, application/x-gzip, application/x-compressed"

b = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :profile =">" profile

b.goto "http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk-7u3-download-1501626.html"

b.radio(:name => "agreementDivjdk-7u3-oth-JPR").click

b.radio(:name => "agreementjdk-7u3-oth-JPR").click

b.a(:name => "jdk-7u3-oth-JPRXXXjdk-7u3-linux-x64.tar.gz").click

# somehow need to block until file totally downloaded

headless.destroy

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Bryan Berry < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

in the meantime, you can work around this by downloading the tarball to a local server than then overriding the 

node['java'][jdk']['6']['x86_64']['url']    attribute like this  or in a role

node['java'][jdk']['6']['x86_64']['url'] = 'http://your_local_server/java_tarball.tar.gz' 

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Bryan Berry < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

dear fellow chefs,

the java::oracle recipe is now broken as Oracle requires a browser cookie set upon accepting license terms

I will  be working on it

that really chaps my hide

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