On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:26:10PM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: > hi, > I've got the following error from you: > ------------------------------------- > Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - os > retrygrab() failed for: > http://x.y.com/yum-repository/redhat/9/i386/headers/header.info > Executing failover method > failover: out of servers to try > Error getting file > http://x.y.com/yum-repository/redhat/9/i386/headers/header.info > [Errno 6] ERROR: Url Return no Content-Length - something is wrong > ------------------------------------- > why yum required Content-Length? I know it's a bit tricy as our yum > client can find it's repo (since we do some proxy etc...) and along this > path the Content-Length lost. but why we need Content-Length? > it would solve our problem... > any chance? > > of course http://x.y.com/yum-repository/redhat/9/i386/headers/header.info > is a walid url (eg. lynx are able to read it). Short answer: we plan to remove this restriction in the near future (there's a version of urlgrabber in testing now that does not include). long answer: see the thread "YUM+FTP" from a week or two ago :) -Michael -- Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxx Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
