Failure recovering connection on Windows

Start with the linked reproduction program and run the shown GHC 7.8.3 command on Windows, focusing on the connection-recovery step after the HTTP redirect. The issue names no repository file or test; done means the Windows request no longer fails with the reported socket error and the behavior is covered by an appropriate regression test.

Moved from https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/2035.

Most pertinent: compiling and running this program with GHC 7.8.3 produces the following on my Windows 8.1 x64 machine. I have tried to reproduce on VMs but can't.

http-test> ghc --make Main.hs -o test.exe -prof -auto-all -caf-all
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( Main.hs, Main.o )
Linking test.exe ...

http-test> .\test.exe +RTS -xc
Trying to download http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz
Sending:
GET /packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
Host: hackage.haskell.org
User-Agent: cabal-install/1.18.0.5


Creating new connection to hackage.haskell.org
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
Received:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/1.6.0
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 22:29:21 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Connection: keep-alive
Location: /packages/index.tar.gz
Content-Length: 0


301 - redirect
Redirecting to http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/index.tar.gz ...
Sending:
GET /packages/index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
Host: hackage.haskell.org
User-Agent: cabal-install/1.18.0.5


Recovering connection to hackage.haskell.org
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
test.exe: <socket: 336>: hGetBufSome: failed (Unknown error)