Bug report: send-keys doesn't work with transparent http proxy server

Peter Surda shurdeek@panorama.sth.ac.at
Tue Aug 21 10:47:02 2001


--p2u4WfPhYOuYlOsk
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hello!

I want to report a bug, gpg 1.0.5 and 1.0.6 don't work with --send-keys whe=
n a
transparent proxy is in the way (squid in my case).=20

I tried to intercept the traffic with ethereal, and got different results.
Sometimes, gpg seems to cut the connection before the other end can reply,
sometimes simply an error response returns, but gpg reports "success,
status=3D200".

When I did export http_proxy=3Dwhatever and used --honor-http-proxy, the pr=
oblem
vanished. Also, getting keys, whether manually with --get-key or automatica=
lly
when reading signed emails within mutt, gpg works ok.

I am not sure what the exact problem is. gpg is the ONLY program having
problems with this transparent proxy, we have a network with over 450
computers runing numerous operating systems and none of the http clients ev=
er
had problems, AFAIK.

Hmm, now something strange happened: it suddenly seems to work, only
www.keyserver.net has problems with transparent proxy. But about an hour ag=
o,
neither certserver.pgp.com nor wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net worked without
--honor-http-proxy. This is weird.

Could someone who has a transparent proxy check this? Or if you have
questions, tell me what to test and I'll post the results.

Also, please cc me, I'm not on the list and don't plan to subscribe.

Bye,

Peter Surda (Shurdeek) <shurdeek@panorama.sth.ac.at>, ICQ 10236103, +436505=
122023

--
            The dark ages were caused by the Y1K problem.

--p2u4WfPhYOuYlOsk
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

iD8DBQE7gh9ozogxsPZwLzcRAvv4AJ42aTUT7B5WOqW3+366euXc81tFJwCgkMaC
TgSnnc+91eawXpvyOTEY4Nk=
=zuHe
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--p2u4WfPhYOuYlOsk--