Bug#499547: "Expect: 100-continue" used in http request

[Achim Schaefer]

Package: boinc-client
Version: 6.2.14-2
Severity: important

when using the squid proxy I get trouble when sending http requests from boinc-client:
19-Sep-2008 18:05:11 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Received header from server: HTTP/1.0 417 Expectation failed
19-Sep-2008 18:05:11 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Received header from server: Server: squid/2.7.STABLE3
The reason is the mentioned entry in the request:
19-Sep-2008 18:55:53 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Sent header to server: POST /cgi/cgi HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: BOINC client (i686-pc-linux-gnu 6.2.14)
Host: www.primegrid.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 5661
Expect: 100-continue

I found in the boinc changelog (back in 2006):
    - suppress "Expect: 100 continue" in HTTP header.
        Apparently this causes problems with some proxies
        (from Ian Hay)

    client/
        http_curl.C

Thanks

Achim

-- Package-specific info:
-- Contents of /etc/default/boinc-client:
# This file is /etc/default/boinc-client, it is a configuration file for the
# /etc/init.d/boinc-client init script.

# Set this to 1 to enable and to 0 to disable the init script.
ENABLED="1"

# Set this to 1 to enable advanced scheduling of the BOINC core client and
# all its sub-processes (reduces the impact of BOINC on the system's
# performance).
SCHEDULE="1"

# The BOINC core client will be started with the permissions of this user.
BOINC_USER="boinc"

# This is the data directory of the BOINC core client.
BOINC_DIR="/var/lib/boinc-client"

# This is the location of the BOINC core client, that the init script uses.
# If you do not want to use the client program provided by the boinc-client
# package, you can specify here an alternative client program.
#BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/local/bin/boinc"
BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/bin/boinc"

# Here you can specify additional options to pass to the BOINC core client.
# Type 'boinc --help' or 'man boinc' for a full summary of allowed options.
#BOINC_OPTS="--allow_remote_gui_rpc"
BOINC_OPTS=""

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (800, 'unstable'), (800, 'testing'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-openvz-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_LU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_LU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages boinc-client depends on:
ii  adduser                3.110             add and remove users and groups
ii  ca-certificates        20080809          Common CA certificates
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.23            Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                  2.7-13            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3               7.18.2-7          Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libssl0.9.8            0.9.8g-13         SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.2-1           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lsb-base               3.2-20            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  python                 2.5.2-2           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

boinc-client recommends no packages.

Versions of packages boinc-client suggests:
pn  boinc-app-seti                <none>     (no description available)
ii  boinc-manager                 6.2.14-2   GUI to control and monitor the BOI
ii  schedtool                     1.2.10-1   Queries/alters process' scheduling

-- debconf information:
  boinc-client/remove_boinc_dir: false