[ds6-devel] Re: privoxy ipv6 patch - PRIVOXY-FORCE doesn't work?

[Quentin Smith]

Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel at deepspace6.net> writes:
>Hi,
>
>On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 07:29:25PM -0400, Quentin Smith wrote:
>
>> I've been using your IPv6 patch for Privoxy for a few months. I've
>noticed
>> a couple of things:
>
>> - Some web sites just time out. Packet sniffing shows that Privoxy
>> successfully gets the page, but then returns no data to the web
>> browser.
>
>Hmm. Do you have any specific example, so that I can test? I.e.,
>please give me a few URL's that exhibit this problem.

Hi-

http://www.hb-rights.org/ does it for me on Internet Explorer 6 connected
through Privoxy on my linux server

One things to note:
www.hb-rights.org is hosted on the same machine as Privoxy is running on.
I'm not sure if this would affect the problem.

Internet Explorer 6 throws up the "Cannot find server" generic error. Some
other web browsers just hang. Mozilla shows "Document contains no data".
If I add an exception to the proxy usage for hb-rights.org, it works just
fine. Turning off all filtering for hb-rights.org in Privoxy does /not/
solve the problem.

I've also seen a similar problem with http://www.aclu.org/ but I think
that might be a bug in Internet Explorer, because non-IE clients can load
it just fine.

This also occurs with other sundry websites. I can't think of any off the
top of my head, but it was annoying enough that I moved to a less than
ideal host-based blocking mechanism on my regular web browser.

--Quentin

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