reopen 651065 retitle 651065 'dropbox start -i' doesn't respect http_proxy as expected severity 651065 important clone 651065 -1 retitle -1 dropbox doesn't verify the HTTP return code when downloading the binaries thanks
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011, Teemu Ikonen wrote: > I ran 'tsocks dropbox update' as root, so pkexec was probably not involved. Right. So we probably still have the problem that I described. > > Looking further I see that the message you pasted says “Downloading > > Dropbox... 100%” so the download actually worked but only the > > download of the signature failed (or worked but returned nothing). > > The failure was instantaneous, so the client was not downloaded. The > downloader script probably mistook the '403 forbidden' message as a > success. Indeed, you're right. Yet another bug in the implementation... that also explains why I have seen many errors where the failure involved the lack of a Content-Length field in the answer. Probably a proxy that did not put this field in its answer... Cloning into a new bug for this one. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Pre-order a copy of the Debian Administrator's Handbook and help liberate it: http://debian-handbook.info/liberation/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
