Bug#89671: apt-get fails when $ftp_proxy is set ...
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Timshel Knoll wrote:
> Wierd. You've got just a plain 0.5.3 install???
Yes.
> [root@pippin pts/5 /home/timshel/var]# ftp_proxy="http://proxy.knoll.ln:8080"; wget ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian/dists/unstable/Contents-i386.gz
wget does not communicate with proxy servers the same way, APT has a habit
of exposing non-RFC compliance because it used to be the only client in
the world to do keep-alive and pipelining.
The fact you get a Connection Timeout seems to confirm this suspicion.
If you 'strace -o /tmp/apt -f -ff apt-get ...' and send me the files I can
at least confirm for you that is the problem.
You may also want to try the -o Acquire::HTTP::PipelineDepth=0 option.
Jason
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