Package: apt Version: 0.3.19 Apt-get cannot handle http redirects (code 302 responses). To reproduce: setup an apache, and configure it with a "Redirect / http://some-debian-mirror/"; Mention this apache instead of the real site in sources.list, and try to apt-get update.
I'd like to have this feature, so that i can temporarily redirect users of my mirror to other sites, if the mirrored data is ever unavailable. For example, with a sources.list line: deb http://debian.otenet.gr/debian potato main contrib non-free (that site currently issues redirects), i get errors such as: Err http://debian.otenet.gr potato/main Packages 302 Found Ign http://debian.otenet.gr potato/main Release Err http://debian.otenet.gr potato/contrib Packages 302 Found Ign http://debian.otenet.gr potato/contrib Release Err http://debian.otenet.gr potato/non-free Packages 302 Found Ign http://debian.otenet.gr potato/non-free Release Costas Tavernarakis
