Bug#274978: apt: Problems decoding chunked encoding
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.27
Severity: normal
Bug number #152711 reported that apt did not handle chunked encoding from the
server properly. A fix for that bug was applied for v0.5.25 of apt. I have
tested apt again recently and a different problem is now present with chunked
encoding.
When I retrieve a file from a server that uses chunked encoding apt will
sometimes corrupt the file by failing to remove the chunked encoding information
from the data stream.
For example the following is the file from /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ for one
of the Release files (I have replaced the character 13 by the two characters ^M
so that it shows clearly in plain text).
--------------------
58^M
Archive: testing
Component: non-US/main
Origin: Debian
Label: Debian
Architecture: i386
^M
0^M
^M
--------------------
This is clearly the body that was sent from the server without removing the
chunked encoding. The data is valid since it says the length is 0x58 bytes
which it clearly is.
The Packages.gz files all contain the ^M, 0^M, ^M lines at the end and are
corrupted in the middle as well.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-67
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-4sarge1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-6sarge1.2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- no debconf information
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