Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] HTTPS problems with elpa.gnu.org

[Bob Proulx]

Savannah Hackers,

Does anyone know who is working with elpa?  If elpa reports are going
to flow into this mailing list it would be nice to know who to
redirect them too.

Tim Cross wrote:
> Trying to install the delight package from elpa.gnu.org fails with a 'Bad
> Request" error when using https connection. This occurs with emacs -Q from
> a GNU Linux (Ubuntu 19.04). Using HTTPS to retrieve packages from the MELPA
> repository works fine. Changing to use HTTP works fine as well. This was
> working previously (last time approx 2 weeks ago).

I suggest filing a ticket with address@hidden as I don't think any
of us Savannah Hackers know anything about elpa.

> To test, M-x package-refrresh-contents will give the error "Failed to
> download 'gnu'' archive. When tested previously on maxOS it appeard to be
> working. Testing again just now and it also fails on that platform.

Yep.  Sounds broken.

Good luck!
Bob