Looking for docs on bzr & http proxy

[Martin Pool]

On  6 Jun 2006, "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <jerry at samba.org> wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> I expect this is somewhere in the docs and I just
> have missed it.  One of our developers has reported
> having problems with proxies and 'bzr {merge,pull}'.
> Here's the information he sent me.

hi jerry,

I don't think we've seen that problem reported before.  An ethereal dump
of the request that fails might be interesting.  If you don't have
PyCurl installed then installing it might well help.

> ------- forwarded msg ----------------------
> Just some feedback, in case someone asks... It does not work
> well with proxies. I get long stalls using, tested two
> independent proxies. For one proxy, the official t-online
> (German Telekom IP provider), I consistenly get:
> 
> $ bzr branch http://www.samba.org/~jerry/bzr/SAMBA_4_0.bzr
> bzr: ERROR: urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 416: Requested
>      range not satisfiable
>   at /usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py line 480
>   in http_error_default
> 
> With our internal proxy bzr stalls for _REALLY_ long times,
> neither CPU on either side, nor network traffic around.=20
> Eventually I get lots of (about 10) abandoned TCP
> connections in 'netstat -nt', with a full TCP buffer size in
> "my" recvq. bzr seems not to have noticed that something has
> arrived.
> ------- end forwarded msg ----------------------
 
-- 
Martin