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| From | Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | proxy baffement |
| Date | 2011-11-17 18:31 -0800 |
| Organization | Canadian Mind Products |
| Message-ID | <qefbc75va1lc98u1i4db78eo4ipcmeeeeh@4ax.com> (permalink) |
This is not so much a question about Java as about HTTP. I wrote a program called Brokenlinks that tests all the links on my website and tells me about permanent redirects and sites that have stayed dead for 6+ days. (It filters out temporary outages). Something strange is happening with http://ask.com My program, written in Java, says it is always dead. Firefox often thinks it is alive. I fired up Wireshark to see if I could figure out what was going on. The first thing I noticed was this GET /tbproxy/lh/fixurl?hl=en-US&sd=ca&url=http%3A%2F%2Fask.com%2F&sourceid=chrome&error=connectionfailure HTTP/1.1 Host: linkhelp.clients.google.com Somehow my request is sometimes going through a Google proxy. Buy WHY? What has google got to do with this? I am am using Firefox, not Chrome. Further, I notice Chrome often says "resolving proxy" and dithers for a long time loading a LOCAL file off my hard disk. Why would a web proxy be involved at all? Opera has been completely unusable for about two years because it takes about a minute to load a file off local disk (it is fine on the web). I thought had something to do with Google Javascript fetching ads and translate slowly, but maybe that too is a proxy problem. The Opera people ignored me every time I reported the problem. I always thought proxies just did a bit of caching, but otherwise you could ignore them. Yet it seem clearly my browser is speaking a different protocol from usual. It seems to be aware of its presence. My questions: If my IAP is using a proxy, what are the benefits? Is there a way to sneak around it in case it is screwing things up? Why google? Do the host proxies for IAPs? Is ASK owned by Google? Is my Java program supposed to be proxy-aware and do something different? -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com I can't come to bed just yet. Somebody is wrong on the Internet.
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proxy baffement Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-17 18:31 -0800
Re: proxy baffement Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-17 19:30 -0800
Re: proxy baffement Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-18 08:11 +0000
Re: proxy baffement Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-18 02:34 -0800
Re: proxy baffement Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-18 02:44 -0800
Re: proxy baffement Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-11-18 09:44 -0800
Re: proxy baffement Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-18 10:06 -0800
Re: proxy baffement Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-19 11:18 +0000
Re: proxy baffement Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-21 10:29 -0800
Re: proxy baffement Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-18 03:12 -0800
Re: proxy baffement Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2011-11-18 22:06 +0000
Re: proxy baffement Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-19 11:10 +0000
Re: proxy baffement Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-19 13:49 -0800
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