darcs patch: Fallback onto simpleHTTP when Network.Browser fails

[Duncan Coutts]

On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 11:52 -0400, Stephen Hicks wrote:
> Er, I forgot to --edit-description, nor did I provide a long
> description.  Basically, I've seen a ton of complaints (and no
> solutions) over the mailing list and IRC about this "recv: resource
> vanished (Connection reset by peer)" error when attempting to 'cabal
> update'.  I tracked it down to a bug in Network.Browser that causes it
> to fail when behind a NAT-based router.  On the other hand,
> Network.HTTP.simpleHTTP, while being less feature-rich, doesn't seem
> to have a problem with NAT.  I've submitted a bug report to the
> maintainer of Network.HTTP, but for the time being, I think it's also
> prudent to include this simple (pun intended) workaround in cabal
> install as well.

If you have a moment, could you check if this bug is fixed in the
HTTP-4000.x release? Or send us the bug report you previously sent to
the maintainer. The maintainer switched of course so I'm not sure if any
reports got dropped in between.

The current plan is to use HTTP-4000.x for cabal-install, so we want to
make sure it is working as well as possible.

Duncan