Proxy problems

[David Shaw]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:30:28PM +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:49, alphasigmax at gmail.com said:
> 
> > gpg: searching for "0xDEADBEEF" from hkp server keyserver.noreply.org
> > gpgkeys: curl version = GnuPG curl-shim 1.4.6
> > Host:           keyserver.noreply.org
> > Port:           80
> > Command:        SEARCH
> > gpgkeys: search type is 5, and key is "DEADBEEF"
> > * HTTP proxy is "http://<user>:<pass>@<proxy>:8080"
> > gpgkeys: HTTP search error 7: couldn't connect: eof
> > gpg: key "0xDEADBEEF" not found on keyserver
> >
> > This is using the released build of 1.4.6 on a W32 system.
> 
> This is might be related to https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue739
> although I never heard that Squid fails on half-closed connections.

Drat.  The HTTP_FLAG_NO_SHUTDOWN stuff was removed in the curl-shim.
I can put it back for 1.4.7, but I wonder why do shutdown() at all?
Whether (strictly speaking) this is a problem in the proxy or not, the
half-closed connections seem to cause problems now and then.

David