Hi. I noticed a problem with Debian's apt program and WWWOFFLE, when used as an HTTP proxy. It's either a problem in WWWOFFLE or in apt or in both. I need help in finding it. The weird thing is that it only happens when you combine apt and WWWOFFLE -- each works very well on its own. Here's a quick description: The relevant line from /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp.debian.org/pub/debian unstable contrib non-free I have http_proxy=http://localhost:8080/ in my environment, which is WWOFFLE. Now here's what happens: alexsh:~# apt-get update Get:1 http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk unstable/contrib Packages [25.9kb] Err http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk unstable/contrib Packages Error reading from server - read (104 Connection reset by peer) It downloads the file, and in the end it gives this error. The file size on the server is 25872 bytes. Now, what apt downloaded was this: alexsh:~> ls -l /var/state/apt/lists/partial/ total 597 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25132 Mar 26 17:28 sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk_Mirrors_ftp.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_unstable_contrib_binary-i386_Packages Downloading files via WWWOFFLE works very well with other clients (such as wget and obviously netscape), and OTOH, when I DON'T use WWWOFFLE as a proxy and download directly using apt, or use Squid as the proxy (!), it also works flawlessly! I tried it a lot of times, with different servers, on different days (so you can't say it's network load or something), and the results are always the same. That's why I say that I don't even know where to look, WWWOFFLE or apt.
It looks like some minor screwup with buffering or something. Does anyone have any ideas? -- Alex Shnitman | http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] +----------------------- http://alexsh.hectic.net UIN 188956 PGP key on web page E1 F2 7B 6C A0 31 80 28 63 B8 02 BA 65 C7 8B BA `When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*".' -- Linus Torvalds
