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

[Quentin Smith]

Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel at deepspace6.net> writes:
>On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:01:54AM -0400, Quentin Smith wrote:
>> Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel at deepspace6.net> writes:
>
>>>> - 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.
>
>> http://www.hb-rights.org/ does it for me on Internet Explorer 6
>> connected through Privoxy on my linux server
>
>Packet sniffing for me shows that Privoxy drops the connection early:
>Not the whole document goes through. Please confirm if in your case
>privoxy gets the *whole* page, or not.
>
>Anyway, it is an upstream bug: It shows up even if my patch is not
>applied. You might want to consider to report it upstream. (I fear the
>answer you'll get will be along the lines of "no time, we are
>concentrating on improving the 3.0.x line", though)
Hi-
Nope, I do get the whole page. Here's a packet capture:
http://www.comclub.org/~root/hbrights.pcap. This might just be because of
the huge MTU on the loopback interface.

Who should I report this to? I have no experience contacting the Privoxy
developers :)
>
>
>> 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.
>
>I don't think this changes anything.
>
>This site is served by Zope. Do you know any other web site served by
>Zope? Does it work? Let's try www.zope.org. That one works.
The site is served by the Plone framework running on Zope. www.plone.org
loads just fine and consists of identical HTML code to my site (layout
code; the contents is obviously different).
>
>
>OK. Are there any other web sites hosted on the same machine as
>www.hb-rights.org? Do they work?
Yes. My personal web domain, www.comclub.org, is also hosted on the same
machine. I've seen this problem with a few pages in the domain, but not
everything in the domain. That's why this is so frustrating: it seems to
depend on both the server *and* the HTML code.

I should mention that I had to patch your patch to get it to compile on my
(relatively) old glibc - find and replace ss_family with __ss_family. It's
possible this affects the problem, though I doubt it.

Thanks for all your help,
--Quentin

Quentin Smith - http://www.comclub.org/~quentins/about
ComClub International - http://www.comclub.org/
quentins at comclub.org
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