Cabal-Install Update Problems

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Jul 27, at 21:45, Jeff Wheeler wrote:

> I am still unable to figure out what is causing this issue, but  
> while experimenting, I found something interesting. Changing the  
> request in cabal-install to POST instead of GET causes it to work  
> perfectly (obviously, this is really ugly, and I know that),  
> avoiding any problems.
>
> The example get.hs file from the HTTP library works fine (even with  
> the same file), so this is not a global problem with my network and  
> Haskell. :-/


This sounds like your ISP is running a misconfigured cache.

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