Am Samstag, den 13.02.2010, 13:54 -0500 schrieb Sam Varshavchik: > Christoph Höger writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I am using an of the shelf firefox rpm. Today the strangest thing > > happened to me: I got an google branded 404 when searching wikipedia. > > The site is definitely up and running and my network settings must be > > fine, since Konqueror and wget get the site (see attached screenshot). > > > > Obviously I only noted it, because googles proxy must have been down or > > something. > > > > So since when does google proxy my http traffic? And who allowed this > > behavior in a fedora rpm? > > Looks very familiar. Are you using privoxy? I was getting the same weird > clusterfscks until I figured it out. > > Edit /etc/privoxy/config and comment out the keep-alive-timeout setting. The > default Fedora rpm package installs a non-default keep-alive-timeout > setting. > > Looks like there's a disagreement between Firefox and privoxy regarding how > HTTP/1.1 persistent connections should work in a proy setting. Privoxy seems > to believe that if the client wants to proxy to a different host, when using > keep-alives, that the client should use a different proxy connection. > Privoxy assumes that, with keep-alive, the client would only send requests > to the same server, through the persistent connection. > > Firefox, though, apparently believes that it is entitled to use an existing > persistent connection to an HTTP proxy to send an HTTP request to a > different host. > > Ergo, privoxy ends up forwarding an HTTP request to the wrong host. I am not using privoxy.
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