Bug#710924: apt: HTTP 406 Not Acceptable with alternates breaks update

Hi Dominik, On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Dominik Schulz (tex) wrote: > apt-get update breaks when the server replies with a "HTTP/1.1 406 Not > Acceptable" to a Range/If-Range request. Which server is that? I don't see how Ranges are connected with the 406 error as it deals with the "Accept:

Bug#710924: apt: HTTP 406 Not Acceptable with alternates breaks update

Package: apt Version: 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.10 Severity: normal Tags: patch apt-get update breaks when the server replies with a "HTTP/1.1 406 Not Acceptable" to a Range/If-Range request. The proper solution would be to handle the Alternates header in the response but as this would introduce a lot