I just needed some simple apt caching at work, and I am unhappy with apt-proxy at home, so I tried apt-cacher. Lo and behold, with a _default installation_ of 1.5.3 (albeit in its ~dapper1 variant on Ubuntu), I got the exact same timout problem manifested by the 'waiting for headers' reported by Alexander in #387449.
And it looks like Nikita'a analysis is correct as simply fixing the regexo as he suggests: I was able to fix the situation by replacing $path =~ s!^http://!!; # allow proxy style with $path =~ s!^http://[^/]*!!; # allow proxy style also works for me. So please put this down as one more request for a fixed version. -- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]