1. Forum
  2. Usenet
  3. LINUX.DEBIAN.BUGS.DIST

  • Bug#266242: port 80 makes for a bad default for a http proxy

    From Peter Palfrader@1:229/2 to All on Tue Aug 17 09:40:06 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot
    From: [email protected]

    Package: debian-installer
    Version: 20040801 (tftp)
    Severity: normal

    In the 'choose a mirror' part the user is asked for a HTTP proxy. If
    one only gives http://<hostname>/ as the proxy, the installer picks
    a default port of 80 for the requests, which is a bad idea.

    In my case I got
    | Bad Archive Mirror
    | The specified archive mirror is either not available or does not have
    | a valid Release file. blabla

    Reason being of course that on port 80 there's an apache which is
    not really a proxy server.

    A better default would be 3128 (squid's default port) or 8080.

    --
    Peter


    --
    To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected]
    with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
  • From Petter Reinholdtsen@1:229/2 to All on Tue Aug 17 09:40:11 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot
    From: [email protected]

    [Peter Palfrader]
    A better default would be 3128 (squid's default port) or 8080.

    I agree. The squid default port 3128 is the proper default port for a
    proxy URL.


    --
    To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected]
    with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
  • From Christian Perrier@1:229/2 to All on Tue Aug 17 10:00:16 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot
    From: [email protected]

    reassign 266242 choose-mirror
    thanks

    Quoting Peter Palfrader ([email protected]):
    Package: debian-installer
    Version: 20040801 (tftp)
    Severity: normal

    In the 'choose a mirror' part the user is asked for a HTTP proxy. If
    one only gives http://<hostname>/ as the proxy, the installer picks
    a default port of 80 for the requests, which is a bad idea.

    In my case I got
    | Bad Archive Mirror
    | The specified archive mirror is either not available or does not have
    | a valid Release file. blabla

    Reason being of course that on port 80 there's an apache which is
    not really a proxy server.

    A better default would be 3128 (squid's default port) or 8080.


    I'm not sure that changing the default to something else than 80 will
    be accepted (after all, the template is quite clear about how the port
    should be specified). But in any case, this bug pertains to choose-mirror.



    --
    To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected]
    with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
  • From Chris Bell@1:229/2 to Peter Palfrader on Tue Aug 17 10:20:15 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot
    From: [email protected]

    On Tue 17 Aug, Peter Palfrader wrote:

    Package: debian-installer
    Version: 20040801 (tftp)
    Severity: normal

    In the 'choose a mirror' part the user is asked for a HTTP proxy. If
    one only gives http://<hostname>/ as the proxy, the installer picks
    a default port of 80 for the requests, which is a bad idea.

    In my case I got
    | Bad Archive Mirror
    | The specified archive mirror is either not available or does not have
    | a valid Release file. blabla

    Reason being of course that on port 80 there's an apache which is
    not really a proxy server.

    A better default would be 3128 (squid's default port) or 8080.

    Also support for apt-proxy and apt-cacher access please

    --
    Chris Bell



    --
    To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected]
    with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)