I can't get apt-get to do http authentication. It seems sources.list doesn't support http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ type URI:s. The manuals do mention authentication to http-proxies, but not authentication to the site. Am I doing something wrong or is this something apt-get can't do (I hope not).
My system is potato with apt-0.3.18. A small demonstration of how apt-get update fails follows. If the server doesn't require authentication the same command succeeds. sources.list: deb http://xxx:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:80/ftp/pub/lifix / apt-get update fails: $ sudo apt-get update Err http://www.lifix.fi Packages 401 Authorization Required Ign http://www.lifix.fi Release Failed to fetch http://xxx:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:80/ftp/pub/lifix/Packages 401 Authorization Required Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. wget succeeds with a similar url: $ wget http://xxx:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:80/ftp/pub/lifix/Packages.gz --18:24:18-- http://xxx:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:80/ftp/pub/lifix/Packages.gz => `Packages.gz.1' Connecting to www.lifix.fi:80... connected! HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Authorization Required Connecting to www.lifix.fi:80... connected! HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1,626 [text/plain] 0K -> . [100%] 18:24:18 (1.55 MB/s) - `Packages.gz.1' saved [1626/1626] -- Anton Gyllenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
