Problem cloning from server on windows

[Andrei Vermel]

>> C:\aaa>hg clone http://127.0.0.1:8888
>> abort: Invalid argument: 127.0.0.1:8888
>
> Bug in Mercurial meets Windows file name conventions:
> Mercurial tries to create a local directory "127.0.0.1:8888" here,
> but Windows doesn't allow colons in names.
> Just specify a non-existing target directory, e.g.:
> hg clone http://127.0.0.1:8888 foo

Indeed, this works! Thanks a lot.

>> C:\aaa>hg clone http://127.0.0.1
>> zlib.error: Error -3 while decompressing: invalid distance too far back
>> transaction abort!
>> rollback completed
>
>Seems some apache error, please look in apache's error.log.

Of course I checked, nothing in there. Something else I noticed,
during remote web access, long pages are incomplete, terminating at random 
places. If accessed locally, they seem to arrive in full. Apache logs don't show
anything interesting. I tried running 'httpd -X', still nothing. I'd be grateful for any 
advices where to investigate further.

Andrei