[Bug 1087512] Re: proxy authentication not working for HTTPS sources

[rvolgers]

Yes, *please* backport this to 12.04.

By the way there was a workaround that allowed proxy authentication to
work with https in the old version, but unfortunately this will break
once the fix ships (not surprising, since it shamelessly abuses the
overly permissive URI parser in apt):

Acquire::http::proxy "http://username:password@hostname:port";
Acquire::https::proxy "http://username:password@username:password@hostname:port";

(In other words, duplicating the username:password@ part for the https
proxy only.)

Again, I recommend against using this, since your apt config will stop
working once this fix is backported.

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Title:
  proxy authentication not working for HTTPS sources

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “apt” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  How to reproduce:
  - have an APT repository over https
     deb https://my.repo/ubuntu precise main
  - have APT go though an HTTP proxy which requires HTTP authentication

     apt-get  -o
  Acquire::http::proxy="http://test:test11@localhost:3128/"  update

  Expected results:
  package lists are downloaded correctly

  Actual result:
  Failed to fetch https://my.repo/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-amd64/Packages  The requested URL returned error: 407
  etc

  The problem is that the https transport mangles the proxy string
  before passing it to curl and strips the proxy credentials.

  See attached patch to fix it.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: apt-transport-https 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-32.51-generic 3.2.30
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Dec  6 16:39:10 2012
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=rxvt-unicode
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-16 (204 days ago)

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