On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Joost Kooij wrote: > > Thanks for the reply! I tried the http_proxy env and it worked.. > > Sort of.. I did get in contact with my chosen host, but after that it > > had problems with the HTTP headers. > > Oh, well, I dunno. Ask the apt gurus (I've cc:-ed to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to provide them with the below diagnostics - > boldly assuming you didn't consider this conversation very private in > nature.) > > > Get http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Packages > > 0% [Packages `Connecting to bess-proxy1.caps.maine.edu' 0]http: Bad header > > line > > Get http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages > > 0% [Packages `Connecting to bess-proxy1.caps.maine.edu (130.111.42.9)' 0] > > [Cmp > > gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file > > http: Bad header line > > > My school district is using BESS Filtering Proxies, which are based > > upon Squid. They just don't like me, I guess.
Please try this devel snapshot of apt at http://www.debian.org/~jgg/apt-source.deb - there is some improved support for bizzar http caches. Jason

