[Bug 208872] [NEW] Missing lines in kio_httprc break all HTTP support in KDE

[Sebastien Raveau]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: kdelibs

First of all, I experienced this problem with Kubuntu 7 and 8
running KDE 3.5.9 for sure, and maybe under KDE 3.5.8

Somehow my ~/.kde/share/config/kio_httprc ended up having only
these 2 lines in the first paragraph (global options) :

SendUserAgent=true
UserAgentKeys=:

The result was that any KDE app relying on kio_http would not
work: Konqueror would say "Could not connect to ...", Kopete
would manage to connect to (at least) ICQ/AIM/GTalk but would
silently fail to connect to MSN (because the login process
requires a phase of HTTPS) and KWeather would say "the station
needs maintenance".

All in all, none of this would help a "normal user" find the problem;
it is only because I have deep knowledge of the MSN protocol and
of KDE that I suspected the underlying kio_http program.

Trying with another user, everything worked. So I compared with
this other user's .kde/share/config/kio_httprc and it showed 3 extra
lines about cache. Instead of manually messing with the config file,
I tried to see what was in Konqueror's Settings panel about Cache.
I unchecked "Use cache", it added the same 3 lines as for the other
user, and suddenly everything worked again.

The resulting first paragraph of the working kio_httprc is:

MaxCacheSize=5120
SendUserAgent=true
UseCache=false
UserAgentKeys=:
cache=Refresh

** Affects: kdelibs (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Missing lines in kio_httprc break all HTTP support in KDE
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/208872
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