#562: cabal-install update fails going through a HTTP proxy (but not consistently) ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: acid2 | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: unknown Ghcversion: | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by rjohnson): I have (what seems to be) the same or a similar problem. This is using the 2009.2.0.1 Haskell Platform installer on XP. In my case however, it doesn't seem to be related to a proxy server, as I'm not using one. Here is cabal's output: {{{ cabal -v3 update Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org Sending: GET /packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1 Host: hackage.haskell.org User-Agent: cabal-install/0.6.2 Creating new connection to hackage.haskell.org Received: HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:06:07 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) Last-Modified: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:48:16 GMT ETag: "3890c6-f9187-366ebc00" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 1020295 Content-Type: application/x-tar Content-Encoding: x-gzip X-Cache: MISS from mds-swf1.mds.aw.loc Via: 1.0 mds-swf1.mds.aw.loc:8080 (http_scan/4.0.2.6.19) Connection: close Downloaded to C:\Documents and Settings\Rjohnson\Application Data\cabal\packages\hackage.haskell.org\00-index.tar.gz cabal.exe: user error (Codec.Compression.Zlib: premature end of compressed stream) }}} and here is wget's output: {{{ wget -dv http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz Setting --verbose (verbose) to 1 DEBUG output created by Wget 1.11.4 on cygwin. --2009-06-10 11:04:50-- http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz Resolving hackage.haskell.org... 69.30.63.197 Caching hackage.haskell.org => 69.30.63.197 Connecting to hackage.haskell.org|69.30.63.197|:80... connected. Created socket 3. Releasing 0x00693ed8 (new refcount 1). ---request begin--- GET /packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: Wget/1.11.4 Accept: */* Host: hackage.haskell.org Connection: Keep-Alive ---request end--- HTTP request sent, awaiting response... ---response begin--- HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:04:51 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) Last-Modified: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:48:16 GMT ETag: "3890c6-f9187-366ebc00" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 1020295 Content-Type: application/x-tar Content-Encoding: x-gzip X-Cache: MISS from mds-swf1.mds.aw.loc Via: 1.0 mds-swf1.mds.aw.loc:8080 (http_scan/4.0.2.6.19) Connection: keep-alive ---response end--- 200 OK Registered socket 3 for persistent reuse. Length: 1020295 (996K) [application/x-tar] Saving to: `00-index.tar.gz.1' 100%[======================================>] 1,020,295 144K/s in 7.4s 2009-06-10 11:04:58 (135 KB/s) - `00-index.tar.gz.1' saved [1020295/1020295] }}} Note that wget also has the "X-Cache: MISS", but it doesn't appear to affect the download. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/562#comment:4 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects