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cocoapods.py generates some JSON-related URLs that lead to a 404 #3715

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@johnmhoran

In connection with a purl2url issue in packageurl-python, I've been exploring the URL-related code in packagedcode's cocoapods.py. With the four PURL spec examples for cocoapods,

pkg:cocoapods/AFNetworking@4.0.1
pkg:cocoapods/MapsIndoors@3.24.0
pkg:cocoapods/ShareKit@2.0#Twitter
pkg:cocoapods/GoogleUtilities@7.5.2#NSData+zlib

I got the following results looking for potentially useful JSON files. Using the pattern

f'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CocoaPods/Specs/blob/master/Specs/{hashed_path}/{name}/{version}/{name}.podspec.json'

from the get_urls() api_data_url variable, we get the following URLs, each of which leads to a 404: Not Found page:

A few lines above that pattern in get)url() is a pattern for the specs_json_cdn_url variable

f'https://cdn.cocoapods.org/Specs/{hashed_path}/{name}/{version}/{name}.podspec.json' 

For the same four cocoapods PURLs, this pattern generates valid URLs to cdn.cocoapods.org JSON files:

BTW, some of the URL data in these four .json files is not (or no longer) valid, e.g., the "homepage" URL for ShareKit (http://getsharekit.com/) leads to what might be a Turkish-language page -- https://smartem.org/. (The "source"/"git" URL (https://github.com/ShareKit/ShareKit.git) is valid and reflects that the last commit was made in December 2017.)

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