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Description of problem:
Want to be able to download the current version of our own corporate packages
in automated scripts.  Don't want to have to search for explicit version/release
numbers.
A web server has all the details:

$ telnet cvs.thus.net 80
Trying 194.217.90.208...
Connected to cvs.thus.net (194.217.90.208).
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /cgi-bin/pkgget.cgi/THUSdisktype/RedHat-EL.4-i386 HTTP/1.0
Host: cvs.thus.net

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:56:41 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.19 (Unix)
location: http://cvs.thus.net/pub/packages/main/RedHat-EL.4-i386/THUSdisktype-8-1.i386.rpm
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/plain

Connection closed by foreign host.

The redirected location exists, is correct, and is downloadable.


However RPM can't install using this URL:

$ rpm -ivh http://cvs.thus.net/cgi-bin/pkgget.cgi/THUSdisktype/RedHat-EL.4-i386
Retrieving http://cvs.thus.net/cgi-bin/pkgget.cgi/THUSdisktype/RedHat-EL.4-i386
error: skipping http://cvs.thus.net/cgi-bin/pkgget.cgi/THUSdisktype/RedHat-EL.4-i386 - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error


Fedora Core 4 fails in a different manner:

$ rpm -ivh http://cvs.thus.net/cgi-bin/pkgget.cgi/THUSdisktype/RedHat-FC.4-i386
Retrieving http://cvs.thus.net/cgi-bin/pkgget.cgi/THUSdisktype/RedHat-FC.4-i386
/var/tmp/rpm-xfer.tpt4qG: not an rpm package (or package manifest):


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.3.3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create script to redirect to a valid URL
2. Use 'rpm -i' with the script's URL
3.
  

Actual Results:  "Unknown or unexpected error"

Expected Results:  Package installed.

Additional info: