[Freedombox-discuss] Apt anomaly when going through privoxy.

[Sunil Mohan Adapa]

On 06/29/2016 09:06 PM, Daniel Gnoutcheff wrote:
> On 06/28/2016 08:59 PM, A. F. Cano wrote:
>> I have noticed that if privoxy is enabled, when doing an apt download from
>> internal machines, if it fails, aptitude retries but starts at the
>> beginning again.
> 
> My Google-fu suggests that Privoxy filters out the "Range" HTTP request
> header field by default [1], which would cause this behavior.  There do
> appear to be plans to change this [2], though I'm not sure what the
> status of that is.
> 
[...]
> 
> [1]
> http://sources.debian.net/src/privoxy/3.0.21-7%2Bdeb8u1/default.filter/#L779
> [2] https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/bugs/893/#6b17

This problems seems to be fixed now in verison >= 3.0.25 which is
available in testing and unstable.  The fix is to disable filtering of
range header by default.

-- 
Sunil


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