[Haskell-cafe] Bug in HTTP (bad internal error handling)

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Simon Marlow wrote:

> On 29/10/2010 23:24, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
>> 
>> 4000.0.10 should fix the reported issue with fail and Either, and bumps
>> the base dep to build with GHC 7.0
>
> That's great.  Any chance you could also look at this one, which appears to 
> be a pretty serious bug for some people, and has a patch?
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4251

Sure, I'll do it this weekend. Given that the HTTP test suite is pretty 
minimal, we'll just have to hope for no unintended side-effects 
though (which also applies to the previous change, of course).

Ganesh