Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 476922
Error 400 (Bad request) for remote (http) rpm installation
Last modified: 2008-12-20 12:21:39 EST
Description of problem: On a freshly installed and up to date F-10 system I encountered the following weirdness suggesting that rpm is passing a badly formed request to curl. Or maybe curl is munging it, I'm not sure: # rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm Retrieving http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 400 error: skipping http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm - transfer failed Retrieving http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 400 error: skipping http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm - transfer failed As a sanity check I then did: # wget http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm --2008-12-17 23:45:21-- http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm Resolving wwwcache.rl.ac.uk... 130.246.135.176, 130.246.132.26 Connecting to wwwcache.rl.ac.uk|130.246.135.176|:8080... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 6739 (6.6K) [application/x-rpm] Saving to: `rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm' 100%[======================================>] 6,739 --.-K/s in 0.01s 2008-12-17 23:45:21 (552 KB/s) - `rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm' saved [6739/6739] --2008-12-17 23:45:21-- http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm Connecting to wwwcache.rl.ac.uk|130.246.135.176|:8080... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 6685 (6.5K) [application/x-rpm] Saving to: `rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm' 100%[======================================>] 6,685 --.-K/s in 0s 2008-12-17 23:45:21 (232 MB/s) - `rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm' saved [6685/6685] FINISHED --2008-12-17 23:45:21-- Downloaded: 2 files, 13K in 0.01s (1.07 MB/s) So, the files are there on the remote server. Apologies if rpm is the wrong component for this bug. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.6.0-0.rc1.8.x86_64 libcurl-7.18.2-7.fc10.x86_64 libcurl-7.18.2-7.fc10.i386 curl-7.18.2-7.fc10.x86_64 How reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1.See above 2. 3. Actual results: Above. Expected results: Remote RPMs are fetched and installed Additional info: This particular machine access the web via a proxy server. In the shell I was calling rpm from http_proxy was correctly set (as evidenced by the working wget).
Hm. Actually, this looks like rpm isn't using the environment variable http_proxy and passing it to curl... ?
Hi, the problem seems to be elsewhere. Doing: export http_proxy=foo rpm -Uhv http://bar outputs: rpm -Uhv http://bar Retrieving http://bar curl: (5) Couldn't resolve proxy 'foo' error: skipping http://bar - transfer failed Replacing /usr/bin/curl with symlink to /bin/env shows that http_proxy is exported in the curl's environment from rpm. It seems to be some sort of communication error between curl and the proxy server IMO.
Ah, yes, so it is. What info do you need from me?
None. If you had any special proxy settings curl is unable to cope with just please file another bug with proxy description. But without direct access to the proxy it is nearly impossible to really figure out what fails. Closing NOTABUG as it is not a bug of RPM.