ensure that the cache-directories are really directories before

[apt.git] / methods / https.cc

diff --git a/methods/https.cc b/methods/https.cc
index 6de18b8e09db126e2a41f7055c7d050388da2ce3..4f2d581d26ab544382116761b81fe1849b66da6e 100644 (file)
--- a/methods/https.cc
+++ b/methods/https.cc
@@ -242,6 +242,19 @@ bool HttpsMethod::Fetch(FetchItem *Itm)
    // error handling
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER, curl_errorstr);
 
+   // If we ask for uncompressed files servers might respond with content-
+   // negotation which lets us end up with compressed files we do not support,
+   // see 657029, 657560 and co, so if we have no extension on the request
+   // ask for text only. As a sidenote: If there is nothing to negotate servers
+   // seem to be nice and ignore it.
+   if (_config->FindB("Acquire::https::SendAccept", _config->FindB("Acquire::http::SendAccept", true)) == true)
+   {
+      size_t const filepos = Itm->Uri.find_last_of('/');
+      string const file = Itm->Uri.substr(filepos + 1);
+      if (flExtension(file) == file)
+        headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Accept: text/*");
+   }
+
    // if we have the file send an if-range query with a range header
    if (stat(Itm->DestFile.c_str(),&SBuf) >= 0 && SBuf.st_size > 0)
    {