bzr access to https://code.l.n redirects to http

[Shaddy Baddah]

I am behind a firewall whereby I can punch through for https, and then have to use a finicky windows domain integrated proxy for http. I elect not to use that proxy as much as possible, and try to "prefer" https when it is availab.e

I have tried to do this with a bzr branch, and have been met with this error:

ubuntu:~/workarea$ bzr branch --verbose https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/binutils/pkg-ubuntu binutils-pkg-ubuntu
bzr: ERROR: Connection error: while sending POST /~ubuntu-core-dev/binutils/pkg-ubuntu/.bzr/smart: [Errno 110] Connection timed out

strace shows that there was an attempt to connect to the http, instead of the https server:

afro-ubuntu:~$ sudo strace -fp 8432
Process 8432 attached - interrupt to quit
connect(6, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(80), sin_addr=inet_addr("91.189.90.11")}, 16^C <unfinished ...>
Process 8432 detached

To me this is a bug. I've specified a https method, so I would expect bzr not to stray. I don't have an ftp methoded URL to try, but I wonder if this would happen for ftp as well.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

which version of bzr is this, please?

please post the backtrace you can find in ~/.bzr.log.

[Shaddy Baddah (shaddy-baddah)]

This affects version 2.4.1-1ubuntu1 of bzr.

$ lsb_release -r
Release: 11.10

.bzr.log attached.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

The reason for this is that <https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/binutils/pkg-ubuntu/.bzr/branch/location> points to <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/binutils/pkg-ubuntu>, which is perhaps a bit strange. It is purely a launchpad server-side bug. Perhaps lp should point to https instead.

As a workaround you can just use an https://bazaar.launchpad.net/... url or even better bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/...