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Title: apt does not handle HTTP redirects Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in apt package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: Problem: apt considers 3xx HTTP server responses the Reproducability: Always Solution: Make apt's HTTP method follow redirects Discussion: I want to set up a package repository on my home (cable modem-based) server that can scale to many Internet clients. Since my use is non-commercial, the Coral Cache <http://www.coralcdn.org/> can be used to distribute the package files. I want to count downloads, so I can get a sense of how popular my packages are. So, I want to store my package files in an HTTP-accessible directory and have Apache redirect packages to the Coralized URL. That way, a client's apt-get install with hit my server, which will return a "302 Found" redirect to the Coral cache; I count package hits without serving the huge files. Unfortunately, apt doesn't handle redirects at all; it treats all 3xx HTTP responses from the web server as errors. I have a blog entry here - http://blogs.jhu.edu/users/paulproteus/18033.html - where I give a tiny bit more detail, but I think this bug report is adequate. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/18645/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
