[Yum] yum and publicfile

[mw-list-yum at csi.hu]

Responding to a privately sent message since other people might have
felt the same.

Sorry, but I certainly did not mean to be rude at all.  Really!  It is
not in my interest: I'd like to see yum work with publicfile.  If I am
rude, I am ignored.

Here is my recap:

---Seth tells me that publicfile is broken because it is not http/1.0
   compliant, so I go to check, and show the experiment that seems to
   indicate that publicfile is http/1.0 compliant.


---Mike tells me that instead, the problem is with publicfile's
   http/1.1 compliance, namely that it does not send content-length.
   So then I go to the rfc, and I find that if Transfer-Encoding is
   sent, then Content-Length _must not_ be sent, hence I show the,
   IMO, appropriate section of the rfc to the list.

What else should I have done?  By just showing outputs, I was hoping
to be to the point, so that I do not waste anybody's time.

I viewed yum's behavior as a different issue.  Indeed, it is one thing
to say that publicfile is not http/1.1 compliant, and it is another
thing why yum behaves the way it behaves.  So while I responded to one
issue (namely, based on rfc2616, publicfile seems to be http/1.1
compliant), I did go to the list archive, and I found that the only
way to search it was to download the list mbox---which crashed my
mozilla.  So I am in the process of trying to figure out how to
download and search the archive.

Would help if somebody told me the thread or date.

Thx,

Mate
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