[Freedombox-discuss] Apt anomaly when going through privoxy.
- Subject: [Freedombox-discuss] Apt anomaly when going through privoxy.
- From: sunil@medhas.org (Sunil Mohan Adapa)
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 19:23:45 +0530
- Message-id: <[🔎] 2931cafd-e93b-db4d-b045-ba3d04f8d485@medhas.org>
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- References: <20160629005938.GA9910@shibaya.lonestar.org> <f5409edc-4624-f02a-bc28-e260fc8dc171@softwarefreedom.org>
On 06/29/2016 09:06 PM, Daniel Gnoutcheff wrote:
> On 06/28/2016 08:59 PM, A. F. Cano wrote:
>> I have noticed that if privoxy is enabled, when doing an apt download from
>> internal machines, if it fails, aptitude retries but starts at the
>> beginning again.
>
> My Google-fu suggests that Privoxy filters out the "Range" HTTP request
> header field by default [1], which would cause this behavior. There do
> appear to be plans to change this [2], though I'm not sure what the
> status of that is.
>
[...]
>
> [1]
> http://sources.debian.net/src/privoxy/3.0.21-7%2Bdeb8u1/default.filter/#L779
> [2] https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/bugs/893/#6b17
This problems seems to be fixed now in verison >= 3.0.25 which is
available in testing and unstable. The fix is to disable filtering of
range header by default.
--
Sunil
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