Hi, Bjorn and Uwe --
this is a known problem with HTTP package (version 3001.0.4). Paul Brown has described this somewere in his blog. (http://mult.ifario.us/t/haskell), but my firefox only shows an incomplete page of this blog, the solution is missing. Paul promissed in his blog to send a patch to Björn Bringert.
Here's the link to the article about SimpleHTTP; for some reason, it wasn't showing up. (Guess I have a bug to fix there...) http://mult.ifario.us/p/a-short-adventure-with-simplehttp
P.S. to Björn: It would be nice, if you could include this change into the HTTP module and upload a new version to hackage. Thank you Daniel and Uwe for reporting this (again). Strangely, I thought that I had already applied Paul's patch, but it seems I haven't. Paul: I seem to recall us talking about this, but can't remember the conclusion, nor find any e-mail about it. Do you remember anything about this?
I can't remember either; I'm sure that the darcs patch is lurking on one of my boxes. I'll track it down and send it your way so we can squash this one. Best. -- Paul -- paulrbrown@gmail.com http://mult.ifario.us/