Bug#557085: apt-transport-https: uses http config rather than https

[Adrian Bridgett <adrian@smop.co.uk>]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 20:35:38 +0100 (+0100), David Kalnischkies wrote:
> Hi Adrian Bridgett,
> 
> First of all: Thanks for your report!

My pleasure :-)  Thanks for the speedy response!

> Your problem is a misunderstanding: APT currently uses the
> settings from http for https and has no special https-proxy-settings.

Ah, I read (man apt-conf): 

https
           HTTPS URIs. Cache-control and proxy options are the same as for
           http method.  Pipeline-Depth option is not supported yet.

and interpreted it as "exactly the same" not "reused".

> I will write a little patch which should add https options which defaults
> to the http ones if not set. I guess this is more what a user expects
> and it is the only way to override these settings in a sane way for https
> as your usecase shows that someone doesn't want to use the same
> settings for http and https all the time.

Fabulous!  I _love_ open source :-)

Many thanks!

Adrian
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