[Distutils] Buildout can't talk to PyPI any more?

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Wed May 29 15:01:01 CEST 2013


I believe this should be fixed now. I ensured Vary: Accept-Encoding was
called even when responses were gzipped.

I also purged the cache so bad entries should be gone. IF you have any
more issues after this email please tell me.

-- 
  Donald Stufft
  donald at stufft.io

On Wed, May 29, 2013, at 08:38 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 02:30:55PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote:
> > Op 29-05-13 14:16, Donald Stufft schreef:
> > >Can you get me outputs of curl with the -i flag of it both gzipped and
> > >not gzipped? I can't seem to reproduce it.
> > 
> > When it works I get this:
> > 
> > $ curl -i http://pypi.python.org/simple/pep8/
> > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> ...
> > Content-Length: 3232
> ...
> > Vary: Accept-Encoding
> > 
> > When I get a gzipped version I get this:
> > 
> > $ curl -i http://pypi.python.org/simple/pep8/
> > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> ...
> > Content-encoding: gzip
> ...
> 
> There's a discussion about this in #buildout on irc.freenode.net
> 
> It looks like the upstream server is misconfigured and doesn't emit
> 
>   Vary: Accept-Encoding
> 
> when a client does a GET with Accept-Encoding: gzip and gets back a
> gzipped response (which then gets cached and served to everyone for one
> hour).
> 
> Donald Stufft is aware of this and is trying to fix it from his phone
> while sitting in an OR waiting room.
> 
> I'm in awe.
> 
> Marius Gedminas
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