On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Matthew Hawkins wrote: > An apt-get update bombs with 'Connection failed' when the http_proxy > env. var. points at rproxy. The http data is flowing between the > rproxies correctly, it appears that apt-get is simply unable to deal > with it.
Almost every proxy out there seems to have problems dealing with APT's very agressive use of HTTP/1.1 features such as keepalive. AFAIK APT does not violate the RFC, is it just the only agressive user of HTTP/1.1 out there. wwoffle and apache-proxy have problems, squid and many others do not, I suggest you strace the http method process and see what system call is causing it to print that error.. Jason
