Yes, unfortunatley, hackage was down. See

https://status.haskell.org/

I think it's being brought up right now by our fearless
volunteer infrastructure rapid response team (they are drafting!).
Please try again.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 8:45 PM, George Colpitts
<george.colpitts@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I type
>
> cabal update
>
> I get
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz : ErrorMisc
> "Error
> HTTP code: 502"
>
>
> Anybody else seeing this?
>
>
> Thanks
> George
>
>

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