Bug#637648: apt-transport-https: ignores HTTP Basic Auth credentials
Package: apt-transport-https
Version: 0.8.10.3+squeeze1
Severity: important
We use HTTP Basic Auth to protect some company-internal packages,
such as *.deb files made from commercial software we purchased to
ease installation and management. Now I want to use https, which
otherwise works, with it, with a stanza like this in sources.list:
deb https://uSeR:pAsS@hOsTnAmE/ squeeze tarent
This results in:
W: Failed to fetch https://hOsTnAmE/dists/squeeze/tarent/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 The requested URL returned error: 403
Remove the 's' between 'http' and '://' and it works.
This basically defeats the purpose… I was considering
making this RC, for the apt-transport-https package,
but keep it at important for now.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt-transport-https depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg4.10] 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.21.0-2 Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt-transport-https recommends no packages.
apt-transport-https suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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