Cable Forum - View Single Post - Merged-Manchester Browsing Slow.

rdhw · 16-01-2004, 09:33

[QUOTE=altisThis do ya? (SACM with no manual proxy selected)[/QUOTE]That site clearly has been tripped up by NTL's breach of the RFCs for HTTP. The RFCs say that proxies must insert a Via header, but the NTL NetApp proxies omit the Via header, but do insert an X_Forwarded_For header, so that a better coded site can detect the browser's IP address. A helpful page for debugging is http://tools.blueyonder.co.uk/browse.phtml, which displays all your browser's HTTP headers, not just the ones a site thinks you might be interested in seeing.

Nevertheless, your post does appear to show that the Baguley proxies are back!

16-01-2004, 09:33	#68
rdhw Inactive Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Cambridge Posts: 567	Re: browsing in Manchester [QUOTE=altisThis do ya? (SACM with no manual proxy selected)[/QUOTE]That site clearly has been tripped up by NTL's breach of the RFCs for HTTP. The RFCs say that proxies must insert a Via header, but the NTL NetApp proxies omit the Via header, but do insert an X_Forwarded_For header, so that a better coded site can detect the browser's IP address. A helpful page for debugging is http://tools.blueyonder.co.uk/browse.phtml, which displays all your browser's HTTP headers, not just the ones a site thinks you might be interested in seeing. Nevertheless, your post does appear to show that the Baguley proxies are back!