Missing lines in kio_httprc break all HTTP support in KDE

[Sebastien Raveau]

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

[Xiong Chiamiov (xiong-chiamiov)]

I spent quite a bit of time trying to track down why amarok suddenly stopped submitting to last.fm (or fetching covers from amazon or getting info from wikipedia). Eventually I ended up taking a working vanilla .kde folder and narrowing down which folder/file was causing the problem; it was kio_httprc. I moved it to my desktop and things work fine again. Now that I know about it, it makes sense, but I had no idea how the various kde parts worked together or any such thing. Here are the contents:

MaxCacheSize=5120
UseCache=true
cache=CacheOnly

[$Version]
update_info=kioslave.upd:kde2.2/r1,kioslave.upd:kde2.2/r2

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

KDE3 is no longer maintained by the KDE, so no further bugfixes will be made for it.