[Yum] why yum need Content-Length?

[Farkas Levente]

hi,
I've got the following error from you:
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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
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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).

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