[Hackage] #540: Transparent decompression behind proxy

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#540: Transparent decompression behind proxy
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  Reporter:  guest          |        Owner:                                   
      Type:  defect         |       Status:  new                              
  Priority:  normal         |    Milestone:                                   
 Component:  Cabal library  |      Version:  1.6.0.2                          
  Severity:  normal         |     Keywords:  proxy vpn encoding decoding error
Difficulty:  normal         |   Ghcversion:                                   
  Platform:  Windows        |  
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 {{{
 >cabal update -v3
 Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
 Sending:
 GET /packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
 User-Agent: cabal-install/0.6.2
 Host: hackage.haskell.org
 Creating new connection to hackage.haskell.org
 Received:
 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:36:01 GMT
 Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian)
 Last-Modified: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:38:09 GMT
 ETag: "388e8b-db7ea-863c1240"
 Accept-Ranges: bytes
 Content-Length: 10547200
 Content-Type: application/x-tar
 Downloaded to
 C:\ghc\ghc-6.10.2\cabal\packages\hackage.haskell.org\00-index.tar.gz
 cabal: user error (Codec.Compression.Zlib: incorrect header check)
 }}}

 My VPN server transparently decompressing packages *.tar.gz ("Content-
 Encoding: x-gzip" header is missing), but cabal thinks that it still
 encoded and yielding an user error. I think it's should be handled by
 cabal.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/540>
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