Comment 7 for bug 18645

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:38:02 -0700 (MST)
From: Jason Gunthorpe <email address hidden>
To: Itai Zukerman <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
cc: <email address hidden>,
        APT Development Team <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#79002: http method should support HTTP redirects

On 11 Dec 2000, Itai Zukerman wrote:

> Looking at the http method, it seems like it would be pretty easy to
> enqueue new (HTTP) URIs for redirects in http.cc. That "solution" is
> definitely a hack (it messes up concurrent downloads?), and what we
> really need, I think, is a new message we can pass back to apt:
>
> 30x URI Redirection
>
> Then, apt can re-issue a 600 to the appropriate method. Is this being
> worked on? I need it for a project I'm doing...

Doing redirects is extremly risky, you may not get the file you requested
after following the redirect, and it tends to hide misconfigured mirrors.
I am not super interested in having it supported by default.

Generajing redirect messages is probably the best way to do it, but that
is somewhat complicated to get right.

Jason