[Bug 1829944] Re: magic-proxy does not send along headers for errors

[Tobias Koch]

** Description changed:

  [Impact]
  
  When there is an error with the apt proxy the headers are not returned
  which makes debugging hard.
  
  [Test Case]
  
  This was tested on xenial when the release lacked the InRelease file by-
- hash.  It's hard to test otherwise unless there are problems with the
- archive.
+ hash.
+ 
+ This can be verified manually as follows:
+ 
+ * Start the proxy via
+ 
+ ./magic-proxy -t `python -c "import time; print(int(time.time() -
+ 300))"`
+ 
+ * In an empty directory do
+ 
+ mkdir -p ubuntu/dists/xenial/by-hash/SHA256
+ touch ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease
+ python3 -m http.server
+ 
+ * In a separate terminal telnet to port 8080 and paste
+ 
+ GET /ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease HTTP/1.1
+ HOST: localhost:8000
+ 
+ followed by an empty line. Without the patch, the response will be the
+ string "No InRelease file found for given mirror, suite and timestamp".
+ 
+ With the patch applied, the response will start with a HTTP status line
+ "HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found" and a set of HTTP headers.
  
  [Regression Potential]
  
  Low.  This was tested on xenial when the release lacked the InRelease
  file by-hash.  Also, this code is not yet in use.

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Title:
  magic-proxy does not send along headers for errors

Status in livecd-rootfs package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  When there is an error with the apt proxy the headers are not returned
  which makes debugging hard.

  [Test Case]

  This was tested on xenial when the release lacked the InRelease file
  by-hash.

  This can be verified manually as follows:

  * Start the proxy via

  ./magic-proxy -t `python -c "import time; print(int(time.time() -
  300))"`

  * In an empty directory do

  mkdir -p ubuntu/dists/xenial/by-hash/SHA256
  touch ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease
  python3 -m http.server

  * In a separate terminal telnet to port 8080 and paste

  GET /ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease HTTP/1.1
  HOST: localhost:8000

  followed by an empty line. Without the patch, the response will be the
  string "No InRelease file found for given mirror, suite and
  timestamp".

  With the patch applied, the response will start with a HTTP status
  line "HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found" and a set of HTTP headers.

  [Regression Potential]

  Low.  This was tested on xenial when the release lacked the InRelease
  file by-hash.  Also, this code is not yet in use.

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