Bug#981166: apt-cacher-ng HTTPS URLs cannot be pinned

[Marc Dequènes (duck) <duck@duckcorp.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 2.1.18
Severity: wishlist
Control: affects -1 apt-cacher-ng

Quack,

I am using apt-cacher-ng and in order to use https I'm using the method 
recommended by its author by prepending HTTPS/// to the host, which 
gives URLs of the like:
  http://HTTPS///myrepo.example.com/debian

Previously I was using o= to match but now prefers matching with the 
origin. I realized that when using a proxy with this trick, and even if 
I encode the slashes as %2f it is not matching. In fact after looking 
into the code I found out it simply split at the first slash, and 
matches with "HTTPS" which means it de facto matches all my configured 
sources, not very practical.

I did not find any way to work around this problem. Would it be possible 
to split using the non-decoded string maybe? (and we could ask the 
apt-cacher-ng to recommend the encoded version instead) Or any other 
solution?

Regards.
\_o<

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Marc Dequènes