Re: yum , https repo , and proxy : Yum fails ..

[seth vidal <skvidal fedoraproject org>]

On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 15:00 +0800, Hikaru Amano wrote:
> On 7/27/07, Ralf Ertzinger <fedora camperquake de> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:46:24 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote:
> >
> > > Squid simply won't do it that way (GET with an https: URL). The other
> > > programs are presumably doing a CONNECT request, which Squid does
> > > support.
> 
> are you saying urlgrabber uses GET for HTTPS?? .. wtf
> 
> >
> > HTTPS must use CONNECT, GET is plain broken for proxyconnects.
> 
> Agreed .. afaik, HTTPS must use CONNECT and not GET .. why does
> urlgrabber say it can do https but it doesnt do CONNECT?
> 
> So, is this a bug or a (weird) feature? ???
> 

I think, though I'm not 100% positive, that all of the url handling at
that level is handled by urllib underneath urlgrabber. I've emailed the
urlgrabber author to ask about this.

-sv