why does my yum download really big headers?

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 10:21 +0800, Yuan Yijun wrote:
> My configuration:
> 
> [yuan at geeks ~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/development.repo
> [development]
> name=Fedora development $basearch repository (Rawhide)
> mirrorlist=file:///etc/yum.repos.d/development.mirrorlist
> gpgcheck=0
> keepalive=0
> enabled=1
> proxy=http://cs:cs2004@202.119.32.27:8080
> #proxy=_none_
> 
> [yuan at geeks ~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/development.mirrorlist
> #ftp://ftp.riken.jp/fedora/core/development/i386
> #http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386
> #ftp://ftp.tsinghua.edu.cn/mirror/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386
> http://mirrors.geekbone.org/fedora/core/development/i386
> #ftp://gnu.nju.edu.cn/fedora-mirror/fedora/core/development/i386
> 
> 
> some explanation. I separate the configuration to 2 files, as you can
> see. And I can access to 2 mirrors, the first one needs proxy, the
> second one (ftp://gnu.nju.edu.cn) not. When I use the first one, the
> headers are very small in size. When I disable proxy and use the
> second one, the headers are as large as the rpm files. Could anyone
> please tell me why this happens? I cannot google it since my proxy
> denied it :*(
> 

your proxy, transparent or not, does not support http byte-ranges.
Contact your proxy admin to support those or use an ftp repository.

-sv