Comment 0 for bug 633763

This can be reproduced on 10.1 and 10.2 at least. x86_64 and i586.

poeml@batavia510 ~ % rpm -Uvvh --test http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/dmacvicar/openSUSE_10.2/i586/kopete-floor-0.1.0-17.1.i586.rpm
Retrieving http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/dmacvicar/openSUSE_10.2/i586/kopete-floor-0.1.0-17.1.i586.rpm
D: ... as /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.yu95CW
D: failed to open http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/dmacvicar/openSUSE_10.2/i586/kopete-floor-0.1.0-17.1.i586.rpm:
error: skipping http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/dmacvicar/openSUSE_10.2/i586/kopete-floor-0.1.0-17.1.i586.rpm - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error
D: May free Score board((nil))
warning: u 0x54fa80 ctrl 0x550d90 nrefs != 0 (software.opensuse.org http)

rpm seems to contact software.opensuse.org twice, instead of following the
redirect by using the address from the Location header:

poeml@batavia510 ~ % strace -econnect,sendto rpm -Uvvh --test http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/dmacvicar/openSUSE_10.2/i586/kopete-floor-0.1.0-17.1.i586.rpm
Retrieving http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/dmacvicar/openSUSE_10.2/i586/kopete-floor-0.1.0-17.1.i586.rpm
D: ... as /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.JtmZi2
connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = 0
sendto(3, "\2\0\0\0\r\0\0\0\6\0\0\0hosts\0U\0", 20, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 20
connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = 0
connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 28) = 0
sendto(3, "\206\371\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\10software\10opensuse\3o"..., 39, 0, NULL, 0) = 39
connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(80), sin_addr=inet_addr("195.135.221.130")}, 16) = 0
connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 28) = 0
sendto(3, "\5\220\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\10software\10opensuse\3o"..., 39, 0, NULL, 0) = 39
connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(80), sin_addr=inet_addr("195.135.221.130")}, 16) = 0
D: failed to open http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/dmacvicar/openSUSE_10.2/i586/kopete-floor-0.1.0-17.1.i586.rpm:
error: skipping http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/dmacvicar/openSUSE_10.2/i586/kopete-floor-0.1.0-17.1.i586.rpm - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error
D: May free Score board((nil))
warning: u 0x54fa80 ctrl 0x550d90 nrefs != 0 (software.opensuse.org http)
Process 1733 detached

The server headers look like this:

poeml@batavia510 ~ % curl -sI http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/dmacvicar/openSUSE_10.2/i586/kopete-floor-0.1.0-17.1.i586.rpm
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 12:22:17 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.4 (Linux/SUSE)
X-Zrkadlo-Chose-Mirror: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de
Location: http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/opensuse/repositories/home:/dmacvicar/openSUSE_10.2/i586/kopete-floor-0.1.0-17.1.i586.rpm
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1