Re: Bug#66434: apt can't handle HTTP/1.0 redirects
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Costas Tavernarakis wrote:
> 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.
Deliberate, redirects are not guarenteed to give the same file that was
requests (see for instance mod speeling)
No proper mirror should generate redirects like that, play with the DNS
instead.
Jason
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