X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/d5b21526b38f816974182c5f56db0e09a0446112..1f46d14620a0b58a9239fa3faa59ba79a98f6c98:/doc/apt.conf.5.xml diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index fcbf20dac..21878e262 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -390,9 +390,9 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; The setting Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth can be used to enable HTTP pipelining (RFC 2616 section 8.1.2.2) which can be beneficial e.g. on high-latency connections. It specifies how many requests are sent in a pipeline. - Previous APT versions had a default of 10 for this setting, but the default value - is now 0 (= disabled) to avoid problems with the ever-growing amount of webservers - and proxies which choose to not conform to the HTTP/1.1 specification. + APT tries to detect and workaround misbehaving webservers and proxies at runtime, but + if you know that yours does not conform to the HTTP/1.1 specification pipelining can + be disabled by setting the value to 0. It is enabled by default with the value 10. Acquire::http::AllowRedirect controls whether APT will follow redirects, which is enabled by default.