Bug#343985: apt: "Bad header line" and "404 Not Found"

[Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>]

I ran into this problem of apt-get (or synaptic) barfing on bad headers.
I tried to get the same file with wget:

liw@dorfl$ wget -S http://agnes/debian/dists/etch/Release.gpg
--23:30:26--  http://agnes/debian/dists/etch/Release.gpg
           => `Release.gpg'
Selvitetään osoitetta agnes... 192.168.1.102
Yhdistetään palvelimeen agnes|192.168.1.102|:80... yhdistetty.
HTTP-pyyntö lähetetty, odotetaan vastausta...
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:30:11 GMT
  Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Debian)
  Last-Modified: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:08:24 GMT
  ETag: "37345ff-17a-45b1cdf8"
  Accept-Ranges: bytes
  Content-Length: 378
  Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
  Connection: Keep-Alive
  Content-Type: text/pgp
@Pontent-Encoding: armored p'
Pituus: 378 [text/pgp]

Notice the garbage header. The server was running a really old version
of etch, with apache 1. I replaced it with apache 2, and the problem
went away. I suspect, therefore, that the problem is not in apt, but in
the web server. Or else something I did merely hid the problem, of
course.

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