#540: Transparent decompression behind proxy ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.2 Severity: normal | Keywords: proxy vpn encoding decoding error Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: Platform: Windows | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- {{{
cabal update -v3 Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org Sending: GET /packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: cabal-install/0.6.2 Host: hackage.haskell.org Creating new connection to hackage.haskell.org Received: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:36:01 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) Last-Modified: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:38:09 GMT ETag: "388e8b-db7ea-863c1240" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 10547200 Content-Type: application/x-tar Downloaded to C:\ghc\ghc-6.10.2\cabal\packages\hackage.haskell.org\00-index.tar.gz cabal: user error (Codec.Compression.Zlib: incorrect header check) }}}
My VPN server transparently decompressing packages *.tar.gz ("Content- Encoding: x-gzip" header is missing), but cabal thinks that it still encoded and yielding an user error. I think it's should be handled by cabal. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/540 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects