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Re: apt-get and rproxy



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


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