Bug#618996: apt-get gives "Bad header line" due to apt-cacher giving "Browser does not support redirects!"

[Mark Hindley]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:44:16AM +0100, Tadeus Prastowo wrote:
> Package: apt-cacher
> Version: 1.6.12ubuntu1
> Severity: important
> 
> "apt-get update" returns "Bad header line". This problem also happens when 
> using "aptitude update" and "aptitude install" although "apt-get install" 
> works fine.

Thanks.

If you apply this patch to /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher, does it 
help?

Mark


commit 078bea72c89edf4287e92e46510aaa6211daf56f
Author: Mark Hindley <m...@hindley.org.uk>
Date:   Sun Mar 20 11:05:05 2011 +0000

    Possible fix for #618996

diff --git a/apt-cacher b/apt-cacher
index 5179ef9..8d83af9 100755
--- a/apt-cacher2
+++ b/apt-cacher2
@@ -1274,6 +1274,7 @@ sub init_curl {
     $curl->setopt(CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME, $cfg->{fetch_timeout});
     $curl->setopt(CURLOPT_INTERFACE, $cfg->{interface}) if defined 
$cfg->{interface};
     $curl->setopt(CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL, 1);
+    $curl->setopt(CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
 
     # Callbacks
     $curl->setopt(CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION, \&debug_callback);



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