#686: cabal install - Codec.Compression.Zlib: incorrect header check
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Reporter: Monsikos | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone:
Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.8.0.2
Severity: major | Keywords: Zlib
Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.12.1
Platform: |
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Changes (by finlay):
* cc: fin...@… (added)
* difficulty: unknown => normal
* priority: normal => high
* severity: normal => major
* platform: Windows =>
Comment:
After exploring this a bit more I have discovered that it is caused by
secret ISP http proxy.
There is a header: Content-Encoding: x-gzip
that gets causes the file to be gunzipped before it gets to my computer.
There are solutions:
1) patch cabal-install to not fail on files it expects to be gzipped but
have been unzipped. I'll see if I can make a patch to do that.
2) make my ISP not proxy the http traffic (not very easy to do).
3) Remove the Content-Encoding: x-gzip header.
I have bumped the severity because this error stops me from using cabal, a
basic part of the batteries included platform.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/686#comment:4>
Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/>
Hackage: Cabal and related projects
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