Cabal-Install Update Problems

[Jeff Wheeler]

On Jul 26, 2008, at 12:25 AM, Jeff Wheeler wrote:

> That makes sense, but unfortunately I don't think I'm getting much  
> useful information from the verbose version:
>
> Daedalus:Downloads jeff$ cabal update -v3
> Downloading package list from server
> 'http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive'
> Sending:
> GET http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz HTTP/ 
> 1.1
> User-Agent: cabal-install/0.5.1
> Creating new connection to hackage.haskell.org
> cabal: recv: resource vanished (Connection reset by peer)

I am still unable to figure out what is causing this issue, but while  
experimenting, I found something interesting. Changing the request in  
cabal-install to POST instead of GET causes it to work perfectly  
(obviously, this is really ugly, and I know that), avoiding any  
problems.

The example get.hs file from the HTTP library works fine (even with  
the same file), so this is not a global problem with my network and  
Haskell. :-/

Jeff Wheeler