Proxy problem in Leeds area

[ryalls]

(Leeds is ex-CWC area if that makes any difference)
I'm using a 600K broadband link off a STB onto an onboard ethernet card, Windows XP Home, SP1.

For over a year now, I have had proxy problems. If I configure my browser so that I let it automatically detect settings, I nearly always get attached to a proxy which corrupts files when I upload through the browser.

Email is fine, FTP is fine, but through the browser (IE6 SP1) files (especially binary files) are corrupted nearly every time.

This problem seems to occur when I get attached to hudd(ersfield) and leed(s) proxies.

As I say this has been going on for over a year, and is solved by permanently using a midd(lesbrough) proxy. So I have a workaround.

However, I want to use ActivePerl on my PC to send files to a server via HTTP, but these files just get corrupted every time.

How can I get ntl: to take this problem seriously and fix it? As I say it's a problem they have known about for over a year.

[rdhw]

Originally Posted by ryalls

However, I want to ... send files to a server via HTTP, but these files just get corrupted every time.

Corruption of uploads was a common fault of the old Inktomi web proxy caches. Try setting an explicit web proxy using one of the new NetApp NetCache appliances now present in the following areas:

Ashford, Baguley, Guildford, Manchester, Northampton, Nottingham, Oxford, Poplar, Watford, Winnersh.

Re Robin's post

cache2-nott.server.ntli.net

is working ok for me at the moment - the ip is 62.254.0.14

to the forum btw

[ryalls]

Thanks folks. I know that forcing my browser to use certain proxies stops corruption of uploads. But the problem I have is that my ActivePerl scripts don't get to choose proxies, they are left at the mercy of the ntl: connection, and uploads are getting corrupted.

So can anybody either tell me how to force Perl to use certain proxies, or how to get ntl: to fix the problem.

[BBKing]

Firstly turn Automatically Detect Settings off in IE, it does nothing except slow down your browser on start up and certainly has no effect on proxy selection.

As for setting Activeperl to use a proxy, is there no way to use a port other than 81? On Unix based systems I'd attempt to use the http_proxy environment variable, which certainly works for downloads when not directly connected to the net. This link seems to suggest something similar when using Windows.
http://www.xav.com/perl/Components/ppmproxy.htm

[ryalls]

Thanks for that link. I'm not sure that I am using PPM, but I'll give it a whirl.