[issue739] recv-keys fails when built without libcurl and using polipo proxy

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:49:24PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> 
> It's a bug in GnuPG.  GnuPG will send the request to the proxy and
> then shutdown the write side of the connection, i.e. it uses
> a half-open connection to get the reply.  Since HTTP doesn't allow
> half-open connections, Polipo assumes that a FIN segment from the
> client means that it has closed the connection, and hence shuts the
> connection down.
> 
> As working around that would impair Polipo's performance, I'm not
> going to work around it.  Would you be willing to report this bug with
> the GnuPG people?

I'm afraid this is way beyond me, so I will just forward Werner's
response here:

> Werner Koch <wk@xxxxxxxxx> added the comment:
> 
> Can you please point me to relevant part of the standard which does not allow 
> to
> close the write end of a connection?
> 
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> <https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue739>
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Please note that AFAIK, the problem only occurs with GnuPG versions
1.4.3 and up if GnuPG is built *without* libcurl.  Building with
libcurl, which GnuPG will do by default if it finds it, appears to take
care of the problem.

-ukh

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