On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Duncan Coutts wrote:

Thanks for looking into this Stephen. Do you have the details on the bug in Network.Browser? We can get that fixed. The current maintainer is happy for us to fix stuff if it's clear what needs to be done. I'd much rather do that than switch to the simpleHTTP which does not support redirects or proxies, both of which we need.

I'll forward the email I sent to Bjorn. The patch I submitted to cabal install still attempts to use the redirects and proxies - it only changes behavior in the case of failure. I couldn't make heads or tails of the Browser module, other than the fact that it doesn't seem to work for me. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stephen Hicks Date: Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:40 AM Subject: Bug with Network.Browser To: bjorn@bringert.net Hi, I've been experiencing problems with cabal update - particularly that whenever I'm behind NAT, I always get the error recv: resource vanished (Connection reset by peer) I tracked this bug down to the use of (browse . request) in Cabal's source. Replacing it with Network.HTTP.simpleHTTP (with appropriate transformations to the output) fixes the problem. But this sounds to me like a bug in Network.Browser, so I'm reporting it to you. I'm attaching at the bottom of this message a simple example. Here's the output I get from behind a NAT router: ===BEGIN OUTPUT=== simpleHTTP: success Sending: GET http://www.google.com/ HTTP/1.1 Creating new connection to www.google.com browser: failure: recv: resource vanished (Connection reset by peer) ===END OUTPUT=== The same error arises from the example found on http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/warrickg/haskell/http/#browser, though I didn't fully understand it, so I constructed my own example. Regards, steve hicks sdh33@cornell.edu ===BEGIN CODE=== import Network.URI import Network.HTTP import Network.Browser import Data.Maybe (fromJust) req = Request{ rqURI = fromJust $ parseURI "http://www.google.com/", rqMethod = GET, rqHeaders = [], rqBody = "" } main1 = simpleHTTP req main2 = browse $ request req try s f = catch (f >>= (\x -> seq x $ putStrLn $ s++": success")) (\e -> putStrLn $ s++": failure: "++show e) main = try "simpleHTTP" main1 >> try "browser" main2 ===END CODE===