apt and proxy problems

[Derek Broughton]

Bake Timmons wrote:

> Rather than register in Launchpad, I thought I would report here about
> a kind of bug that seems to bite apt from time to time.

Sure, but it won't get fixed that way...

> apt-get (0.7.9ubuntu17) does not play well with at least one web proxy
> -- wwwoffle (several recent versions).  
...
> 
> A workaround is to set the following option in wwwoffle.conf:
> 
> reply-chunked-data = no
> 
> In any case, apt-get has apparently suffered from bugs involving
> chunked encoding over recent years.  Another workaround that works for
> me so far is to just use another proxy like polipo that just happens
> to not be affected by this bug.

Ack!  Thus making everything else relying on the proxy _less_ reliable (I
used to use polipo).

Wouldn't it make much more sense just to have apt bypass the proxy?
-- 
derek