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

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>]

On 2007-01-20 23:36:40 +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> 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.

But why does this occur on powerpc only?

And couldn't apt try another web server (and blacklist bad ones
for the future connections)?

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