On 3/29/06, Andreas Pakulat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > reopen 354743 = > thanks > > now packages.debian.org is back again and reacts with gzip-compressed > HTTP answers when asked for them. > > Now the answer to the url that reportbug uses > (http://packages.debian.org/<package>) is a gzip-compressed 302. So the > HTTPRedirectHandler jumps in and fetches the given url (which points to > the cgi-perl-script doing the actual search). This handle however > doesn't ask packages.d.o for a compressed response and thus the response > is plain text. But reportbug still thinks its compressed and thus tries > to decompress the plain text message which of course fails with an > IOError. > > There are 2 solutions to this: > > 1. The easiest: Turn off the Accept-Encoding line in urlutils.py:urlopen > > 2. find out why reportbug doesn't get that the real response is not > gzipped anymore and fix it. > > I had a quick look for 2 but I couldn't find anything besides that the > error happens when the page returned is read().
I still can't duplicate this problem here. There is an unrelated bug in the package version checking that I just fixed, but reading the resulting page doesn't result in any problems here. I tested with both Python 2.3 and 2.4. Maybe packages.debian.org redirects somewhere different for requests from Europe? Here, it maps to http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=reportbug, which doesn't send a compressed response. Chris -- Chris Lawrence - http://blog.lordsutch.com/
