Re: [Apt-proxy-users] Problem with apt-proxy, http backend and a new firewall

[Olivier B. <Oli...@pu...>]

Hello,

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:05:20PM +0200, Olivier Bornet wrote:
> since Monday, we have a new firewall at work. And since Monday, we have
> problems with apt-proxy. And it seems the problem is related to this new
> firewall.

I have found a work-around for my problem by patching apt_proxy.py. I
don't know if this is a valid correction or not, but with this
correction, all seems to be OK.

The patch add the hostname and port to the sendCommand(), even if we
don't go trough a proxy...

Anyway, this seem to be a problem with our "new" firewall. It seems to
block simple session like:

    telnet the-outside-web-server 80
    GET /

You need to do at least:

    telnet the-outside-web-server 80
    GET / HTTP/1.0
    Host: the-outside-web-server

You can also make:

    telnet the-outside-web-server 80
    GET http://the-outside-web-server/

Don't know if this filtering by the firewall is some kind of
"security rule", or if this is not a correct HTTP protocol to say only
"GET /".

Thanks to look at the attached patch, and let me know if this is a
correct patch or not.

Good day.

        Olivier
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