On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 20:45 -0500, Jeff Wheeler wrote:
On Jul 26, 2008, at 12:25 AM, Jeff Wheeler wrote:
That makes sense, but unfortunately I don't think I'm getting much useful information from the verbose version:
Daedalus:Downloads jeff$ cabal update -v3 Downloading package list from server 'http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive' Sending: GET http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz HTTP/ 1.1 User-Agent: cabal-install/0.5.1 Creating new connection to hackage.haskell.org cabal: recv: resource vanished (Connection reset by peer)
I am still unable to figure out what is causing this issue, but while experimenting, I found something interesting. Changing the request in cabal-install to POST instead of GET causes it to work perfectly (obviously, this is really ugly, and I know that), avoiding any problems.
The example get.hs file from the HTTP library works fine (even with the same file), so this is not a global problem with my network and Haskell. :-/
Is the example get.hs file using a proxy server? Are you using a proxy server? cabal-install will use one if the http_proxy/HTTP_PROXY env var is set. See Hackage/HttpUtils.hs in cabal-install. Duncan