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Re: proxy baffement

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From Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject Re: proxy baffement
References <qefbc75va1lc98u1i4db78eo4ipcmeeeeh@4ax.com>
Message-ID <slrnjcc4pi.fvg.avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)
Date 2011-11-18 08:11 +0000

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Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:
> My program, written in Java, says it [ask.com] 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

The "error=connectionfailure" makes it look like the result of some
other software that gets triggered by failed connect-attempts and
tries to retrieve separate information for the failure.  It could
be a browser-addon, but perhaps could also be software installed
at system level (chrome surely looks quite suspicious for that).

Doesn't wireshark show some SYN packets going to ask.com before this
line?

> 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).

Cannot reproduce that with opera on my machine. (and perhaps the 
opera-people weren't able, either.)  Perhaps you use network-drives
mounted locally?  Or an over-eager virus-scanner, that intercepts
local file reads?  Or such without the "-scanner"...

> Is there a way to sneak around it in case it is screwing things up?

Subscribe to a different one.  But your problem doesn't so far look
like it was the IAP's responsibility.
While they could force a more or less transparent proxy upon all your
connections to the outside world, they surely have no means to interfere
with local file accesses, unless something goes wrong in the browser.

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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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