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Bug#1125030: apt-listbugs: sometimes gives "E: HTTP GET failed"

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I'm not sure whether this is the same problem, but I'm seeing the server
return an HTML page demanding that the client enable Javascript.  A log
is attached.  apt-listbugs fails to parse the returned data.

At the time, I tried accessing packages.debian.org in a browser and saw
a similar demand.  But that's working normally now, while apt-listbugs
isn't.

-- Michael


On Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 23:37:15 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> 
> 
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 17:49:57 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > apt-listbugs sometimes gives the following error:
> > 
> > Retrieving bug reports... 0% Fail
> > E: HTTP GET failed
> > Retry downloading bug information? [Y/n] 
> 
> Hello Vincent, thanks for your bug report!
> 
> I have seen that error too, in recent times, but only very sporadically.
> 
> > 
> > It is not clear whether the error comes from the package itself or
> > from the remote side, but in the latter case, the reason should be
> > output (e.g. HTTP error code).
> 
> The error message is produced by apt-listbugs, when it catches an
> exception of class SOAP::HTTPStreamError, raised by the SOAP library.
> 
> I am convinced that it depends on a communication error with the server
> (the Debian BTS).
> 
> I can try to modify apt-listbugs, so that it prints some more
> information about the exception on stderr, but I am not sure it can be
> done easily enough.
> Moreover, since, as I said, the error shows up very sporadically, it's
> hard to test.
> 
> Do you have a reliable way to artificially obtain that error?
> 
> 
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Bug#1125030: apt-listbugs: sometimes gives "E: HTTP GET failed" Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2026-01-08 19:00 +0100
  Bug#1125030: apt-listbugs: sometimes gives "E: HTTP GET failed" Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org> - 2026-01-10 04:30 +0100
    Bug#1125030: apt-listbugs: sometimes gives "E: HTTP GET failed" Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2026-01-10 13:10 +0100
      Bug#1125030: apt-listbugs: sometimes gives "E: HTTP GET failed" Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org> - 2026-01-13 00:10 +0100
    Bug#1125030: apt-listbugs: sometimes gives "E: HTTP GET failed" Michael Gold <michael@bitplane.org> - 2026-01-10 20:40 +0100
      Bug#1125030: apt-listbugs: sometimes gives "E: HTTP GET failed" Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org> - 2026-01-13 00:10 +0100
        Bug#1125030: apt-listbugs: sometimes gives "E: HTTP GET failed" Michael Gold <michael@bitplane.org> - 2026-01-13 00:40 +0100
  Bug#1125030: apt-listbugs: sometimes gives "E: HTTP GET failed" Antti Kultanen <debbugs@pyksy.fi> - 2026-01-21 18:50 +0100
  Bug#1125030: apt-listbugs: Error also appears in 0.1.44 and 0.1.42, look like a server problem Jürgen A. Erhard <jae+debian@jaerhard.com> - 2026-01-23 10:40 +0100
    Bug#1125030: apt-listbugs: Error also appears in 0.1.44 and 0.1.42, look like a server problem Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2026-01-23 13:20 +0100
      Bug#1125030: apt-listbugs: Error also appears in 0.1.44 and 0.1.42, look like a server problem Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org> - 2026-01-23 23:30 +0100
  Bug#1125030: apt-listbugs: Reported bug to bugs.debian.org Jürgen A. Erhard <jae+debian@jaerhard.com> - 2026-01-24 11:00 +0100
  Bug#1125030: all attempts failed Jean-Marc <jean-marc@6jf.be> - 2026-01-25 15:10 +0100
  Bug#1125030: apt-listbugs: sometimes gives "E: HTTP GET failed" Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net> - 2026-01-26 18:00 +0100
  Bug#1125030: probably server problem, fastly! Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <ivan.s.b@webthatworks.it> - 2026-01-27 15:20 +0100
  Bug#1125030: It really look like a server problem Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <ivan.s.b@webthatworks.it> - 2026-01-27 22:50 +0100
  Bug#1125030: Bug#1126340: Bug#1125030: bugs.debian.org: SOAP interface often (not always) returns 503 Service Unavailable "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> - 2026-01-28 12:00 +0100

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