On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 04:14:50PM -0600, Art Sackett wrote:
> I've just solved this problem for myself after doing some packet
> capture. The only significant difference between apt and any other HTTP
> client is the User-Agent string, so I changed apt's by creating the file
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99useragent and populating it with:
>
> Acquire
> {
> http::User-Agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101
> Firefox/60.0";
> };
>
> Bingo! 'apt update' and 'apt upgrade' both work fine.
>
> Apparently, the mirrors are getting nauseated by the User-Agent string.
> That ain't right!
Are you sure it's the mirror, and not some kind of "transparent" HTTP
proxy on your end? Workplace, ISP, McDonald's wifi, communist government
firewall, ...?
