REHL yum http_proxy update does not work!

Apr 15 07 9:13 pm

If you use a REHL 5 or CentOS 5 box or maybe any linux using yum behind a wingate proxy box with enables virus plugin you will always get an "Header is not complete" error and yum does not work.

As a workaround you have to switch off the virus check within wingate. Is there a better solution for this problem?

Apr 17 07 8:29 am

Olaf, I'm not familiar with Yum, but does it use ranges? (Range request tag). If it does, you cannot use ranges with plugins as that allows bypassing of a scan. (Virus / other content can fall across the boundaries)

For sites / applications that require ranges you would need to set an override in the appropriate plugins to ignore that request.

Apr 19 07 10:52 am

Pascal wrote:Olaf, I'm not familiar with Yum, but does it use ranges? (Range request tag). If it does, you cannot use ranges with plugins as that allows bypassing of a scan. (Virus / other content can fall across the boundaries)

Yum is the sw package updater used for some linux distributions (like redhat). I do not know if it uses ranges but I will switch on debug and maybe ethereal next time.