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cabal update fails with 403

I've been trying to follow the guide at https://help.pythonanywhere.com/pages/Haskell/ but cabal update fails with a 403 when trying to downloading 00-index.tar.gz. Attempting to download this file with wget also fails with the same error code but I can download the file in a browser. Any help would be appreciated.

deleted-user-111405 | 2 posts | Nov. 1, 2015, 5:40 p.m. | permalink

Hi there,

Thanks for the feedback. Turns out free users couldn't access the hackage.haskell.org to download the updates because we restrict external internet access. But we have just added it to the whitelist. It should work now. Let us know if you are still having any problems.

Staff conrad | 4232 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | Nov. 2, 2015, 12:11 p.m. | permalink

Sorry for the delay replying - cabal update works fine now. Many thanks!

deleted-user-111405 | 2 posts | Nov. 16, 2015, 10:44 p.m. | permalink