From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: rekado <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: 19439@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19439: guix download fails with "bad qstring header component"
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 23:27:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egrmhws8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppb86luq.fsf@mango.localdomain> (rekado@elephly.net's message of "Thu, 25 Dec 2014 11:54:21 +0100")
rekado <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix download http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/hg/icepick/archive/15425b469aea.tar.gz
> starting download of `/tmp/guix-file.zrKNcT' from `http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/hg/icepick/archive/15425b469aea.tar.gz'...
> ERROR: Bad qstring header component: 1200667312.0
Indeed. The HTTP headers here look like this:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 22:10:49 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Debian)
ETag: 1200667312.0
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
For details, this can be reproduced like this:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
scheme@(guile-user)> ,use(web client)
scheme@(guile-user)> (http-get "http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/hg/icepick/archive/15425b469aea.tar.gz")
web/http.scm:854:12: In procedure parse-entity-tag:
web/http.scm:854:12: Bad qstring header component: 1200667312.0
Entering a new prompt. Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue.
scheme@(guile-user) [1]> ,bt
In web/client.scm:
228:8 4 (request "http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/hg/icepick/archive/15425b469aea.tar.gz" #:body #f #:port #<input-output: s…> …)
In web/response.scm:
199:6 3 (read-response #<input-output: socket 13>)
In web/http.scm:
218:33 2 (lp ((server . "Apache/2.2.22 (Debian)") (date . #<date nanosecond: 0 second: 3 minute: 14 hour: 22 day: 26 mont…>)))
188:11 1 (read-header #<input-output: socket 13>)
854:12 0 (parse-entity-tag "1200667312.0")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
And indeed, Section 14.19 of
<http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html> says that the
‘ETag’ header has type ‘entity-tag’.
‘parse-entity-tag’ is written like this:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(define (parse-entity-tag val)
(if (string-prefix? "W/" val)
(cons (parse-qstring val 2) #f)
(cons (parse-qstring val) #t)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Section 3.11 at <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html>
confirms the above definition for ‘entity-tag’.
Lastly, ‘quoted-string’ in
<http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec2.html> is defined as a
string surrounded by double quotes, basically.
So, in short, I think Apache httpd is returning an invalid ETag header,
and Guile’s HTTP client is right in rejecting it.
Having said that doesn’t help much though. I’m not sure how frequent
this is, and whether/how this could be worked around. Ideas?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-26 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-25 10:54 bug#19439: guix download fails with "bad qstring header component" rekado
2014-12-26 22:27 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-01-29 16:16 ` Eric Bavier
2015-02-03 22:32 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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