From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: bug#19439: guix download fails with "bad qstring header component" Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 23:32:21 +0100 Message-ID: <87twz2sk22.fsf@mango.localdomain> References: <87ppb86luq.fsf@mango.localdomain> <87pp9xsgsp.fsf@member.fsf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57562) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIm1u-0003ih-7d for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:33:11 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIm1l-0002AM-Ux for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:33:10 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:41971) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIm1l-0002A9-S7 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:33:01 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YIm1l-0007C6-KB for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:33:01 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-reply-to: <87pp9xsgsp.fsf@member.fsf.org> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eric Bavier Cc: 19439@debbugs.gnu.org Eric Bavier writes: > I've encountered the same issue while attempting to upgrade the > python-pillow package. For the newer versions 2.6.2 and 2.7.0, the > following errors are reported when downloading the source:: [...] > I don't have any ideas on how to work around this issue in general. In > this case, we might be able to fetch the source from github rather than > pypi. But this should add to the question of how frequent this problem > is. FWIW, pypi.python.org has been fixed after reporting the issue to the webmasters. Would it be desirable for the HTTP client to be a little more tolerant in general? ~~ Ricardo