On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 06:02:48PM -0400, Daniel Richard G. wrote: > Package: apt-cacher > Version: 1.6.8 > > This bug report is a spinoff of Bug#517761. > > I'm using thttpd as the Web server for the "simulated repository." > Apparently, it doesn't support HTTP Keep-Alive (let alone pipelining); > it only returns one file at a time, always with "Connection: close". And > here's the thing: It returns a Content-Length header for successful > requests, but *not* for 404 error pages.
I have just been going through the RFCs. Even if thttpd is only doing HTTP/1.0, it says Applications should use this field to indicate the size of the Entity-Body to be transferred, regardless of the media type of the entity. A valid Content-Length field value is required on all HTTP/1.0 request messages containing an entity body. So, I think this is a thttpd bug, not apt-cacher. Have I understood you correctly? Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
