What causes a "502 Proxy Error" when using an api script with an Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite Server?
The error message "502 Proxy Error" when using api scripts with an Red Hat Nework (RHN) Satellite Server are generally caused by the timeout set in apache.
To remedy this in a pre-5.1 Satellite simply change "Timeout 120" to "Timeout 1200" in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
To remedy this in a 5.1 Satellite change the same value but in /etc/rhn/satellite-httpd/httpd.conf
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