#7979 NORM 8.2.0 (: can't update most activities over school server squid setup

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#7979: can't update most activities over school server squid setup
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   Reporter:  dsd              |       Owner:  cscott              
       Type:  defect           |      Status:  new                 
   Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)
  Component:  upgrade utility  |     Version:  not specified       
 Resolution:                   |    Keywords:                      
Next_action:  never set        |    Verified:  0                   
  Blockedby:                   |    Blocking:                      
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Comment(by cscott):

 I've got a number of packet traces here.  On an unproxied connection, the
 problem seems to be if congestion causes a connection to be closed
 abruptly; the next pipelined HTTP request causes a BadStatusLine exception
 to be thrown (when the next response read returns '').  With Squid this is
 100% reproducible since Squid seems to close then connection w/o warning
 after two pipelined requests have gone through.  Apparently the RFC
 suggests that clients "should" watch for socket close, regardless of keep-
 alive status, so it seems that python is at fault even though squid is
 retarded.

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