#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 duncan): And here's another reported example of the same issue: {{{ dever@carbon (~) -> cabal update -v3 [17:41] 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 proxy uri host: proxy.dcu.ie, port: :8080 Creating new connection to proxy.dcu.ie:8080 Received: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:41:54 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) Last-Modified: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:00:48 GMT ETag: "58c20d-f9605-b1faec00" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 1021445 Content-Type: application/x-tar Content-Encoding: x-gzip X-Cache: MISS from cache.dcu.ie X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from cache.dcu.ie:3128 Via: 1.1 proxy1.dcu.ie:3128 (squid/2.7.STABLE4) Connection: close Downloaded to /home/member/d/dever/.cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org/00-index.tar.gz cabal: user error (Codec.Compression.Zlib: premature end of compressed stream) }}} Now running again and getting a proxy cache hit: {{{ dever@carbon (~) -> cabal update -v3 [17:41] 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 proxy uri host: proxy.dcu.ie, port: :8080 Creating new connection to proxy.dcu.ie:8080 Received: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:41:59 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) Last-Modified: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:00:48 GMT ETag: "58c20d-f9605-b1faec00" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 1021445 Content-Type: application/x-tar Content-Encoding: x-gzip X-Cache: MISS from cache.dcu.ie X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from cache.dcu.ie:3128 Proxy-Connection: close Downloaded to /home/member/d/dever/.cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org/00-index.tar.gz Reading available packages... }}} Why has this started cropping up all of a sudden? Never seen this before then 3 reports in as many days. Do we suspect HTTP-4000.0.6 -> 7 perhaps? -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/562#comment:6 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects