Comment 1 for bug 1026762

with http proxy set, it gives even more bizarre error

# poldek -vv --st=metadata --source http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64/ --update
Setting temporary cache directory path to /root/.poldek-cache
Setting cache directory path to /root/.poldek-cache
Enabling multilib mode, transaction color = 3
Retrieving http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/[...]/repomd.xml...
Connecting to dl.google.com:80...
< GET /linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1
< Host: dl.google.com
< User-Agent: poldek-vhttp/0.30
> HTTP/1.0 200 OK
> Last-Modified: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:20:00 GMT
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> Content-Type: application/xml
> ETag: 2f22e
> Vary: *
> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:40:32 GMT
> Server: downloads
> Cache-Control: private
> X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
> X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
> X-Cache: MISS from proxy.local
> X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from proxy.local:3128
> Via: 1.0 proxy.local:3128 (squid/2.7.STABLE9)
> Connection: close
error: vfff: Content-Length parse error ((null))
Retrying...(#2)
Connecting to dl.google.com:80...
< GET /linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1
< Host: dl.google.com
< User-Agent: poldek-vhttp/0.30
> HTTP/1.0 200 OK
> Last-Modified: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:20:00 GMT
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> Content-Type: application/xml
> ETag: 2f22e
> Vary: *
> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:40:33 GMT
> Server: downloads
> Cache-Control: private
> X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
> X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
> X-Cache: MISS from proxy.localproxy.local
> X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from proxy.local:3128
> Via: 1.0 proxy.local:3128 (squid/2.7.STABLE9)
> Connection: close
error: vfff: Content-Length parse error ((null))
Retrying...(#3)
^C