Cannot upload recording - but works via curl

[bashfulrobot]

Hi there,

For some reason, the asciinema cannot upload the recording.

• I attempted the retry command - but that does not work either.
• I can play back the local file with the asciinema play command.
• I can upload via curl (command came from the IRC channel, but cannot remember the command currently).
• I have asciinema installed via a snap package.

/snap/bin/asciinema

Error

$ asciinema upload /tmp/tmpc5xmedw5-ascii.cast
asciinema: upload failed: The server is having temporary problems. Try again in a minute.
asciinema: retry later by running: asciinema upload /tmp/tmpc5xmedw5-ascii.cast

System

  Host: bashfulrobot Kernel: 5.0.0-13-generic x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: i3 4.16.1 Distro: Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo)

Asciinema Version

asciinema 2.0.2

Python Versions

python --version
Python 2.7.16

python3 --version
Python 3.7.3

Thank you.

[vranystepan]

@bashfulrobot I suppose it's caused by Disco Dingo :) I have the same issue with Xubuntu 19.04.

[bashfulrobot]

@vranystepan Thank you for confirming the issue and that I am not the only one.

[ku1ik]

Can you try uploading with curl as shown here? https://gist.github.com/sickill/514860f60d01ed9218be4ede51a33887

This will show us wether this is some OS specific issue (SSL certs) or maybe Ubuntu's Python 3 build issue.

[bashfulrobot]

@sickill This works without issue via curl (mentioned in the original post). :-) But I just ran again with the command - no issues via curl at all. In fact, my temp workaround is a shell alias.

[ku1ik]

I found the problem, and it's not something I expected :)

On Ubuntu Disco the User-Agent string that is sent is something like:
asciinema/2.0.2 CPython/3.7.3 Linux/4.9.125-linuxkit-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-19.04-disco

The final part is the result of platform.platform() which is basically a uname.

So far so good.

Now, the nginx on asciinema.org uses "bad bots" blocking list from https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker which matches user agent string against a list of bots known for bad behavior.

It appeared that this block list contains regexp ~*\bDisco\b...

🤦‍♂

I've removed it from the block list, tested on Ubuntu Disco, seems to be working ok now.

Sorry about that!

[bashfulrobot]

Confirmed as working! Hopefully, nothing changes in 19.10 (we just started working on it).

Thank you for your time!

[vranystepan]

Great! Thank you so much!

[stefanv]

This seems to be the same issue I am experiencing on Debian; curl upload works, Python client fails.

$ uname -a
Linux carbo 4.19.0-5-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.37-6 (2019-07-18) x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ python -V
Python 3.7.4+

$ pip list | grep asciinema
asciinema                     2.0.2

[rlue]

Seconding @stefanv's comment. curl upload works and official Debian package fails on Debian bullseye:

$ uname -a
Linux shibori 5.2.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.2.17-1 (2019-09-26) x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ asciinema --version
asciinema 2.0.2

[verfriemelt-dot-org]

this is still present, the plattform string:

>>> platform.platform();
'Linux-5.4.0-3-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-bullseye-sid'

[askdba]

After spending hours trying to figure out SSL issues on MacOS Catalina

asciinema: upload failed: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1123)>
asciinema: retry later by running: asciinema upload /var/folders/2j/7schjxl10bgdwl5_bsznbqm00000gn/T/tmp62k0vrw7-ascii.cast

None of the solutions provided worked for me. The curl workaround uploads my test recording.
I see this issue is closed but is there a resolution.