The Transparent Proxy From Hell

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Did iBurst hire an Exchange specialist to install the Squid Cache?

Apart from its numerous errors i get from it. The new one is that you cant upload files to certain websites because although your browser is happy waiting - the transparent cache times-out and says "Zero sized Reply"
 
they got the gardener to install that cache server. WBS, PLEASE HIRE COMPITENT STAFF, your cousins, brothers, former room mate, just doesnt cut it, and is screwing up things on OUR time
 
ugh ugh ugh you guys ned to realise that has not alot to do with config of the proxy and everything to do with routing etc, if you get zero sized reply you need to realise that if there was no proxy firefox would tell you 'document contains no data', welcome to the internet boys, this sort of thing happens all the time, because if you send an html page through tcp and somehow a nullbyte creeps in the first byte all the data behind it gets lost because thats the way strings are handled, dont blame wbs, i mean yeah they have problems but this isnt one of em, blame computer scientists from the 70's that invented the c language
 
From what I have heard, the proxy is actually Net App. Not a squid proxy.
Quite an expensive piece of equipment.
 
slimothy said:
ugh ugh ugh you guys ned to realise that has not alot to do with config of the proxy and everything to do with routing etc, if you get zero sized reply you need to realise that if there was no proxy firefox would tell you 'document contains no data', welcome to the internet boys, this sort of thing happens all the time, because if you send an html page through tcp and somehow a nullbyte creeps in the first byte all the data behind it gets lost because thats the way strings are handled, dont blame wbs, i mean yeah they have problems but this isnt one of em, blame computer scientists from the 70's that invented the c language
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If it ain't "Comical" Slimothy ... the Minister of Truth and Information for WBS.

Now where on earth do you get this creeping null byte and string handling in C explanation from ???.

Afaik TCP packets have a checksum on them so where does this mysterious null byte suddenly come from ???.

Afaik these "no data' errors can occur because of browser caching , virus scanners and firewalls.

Below is a discussion on this issue and some solutions

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewt...tdays=0&postorder=asc&postsperpage=15&start=0
 
i'm talking about when the proxy handles it as a string not when the server sends it in a packet, once its recieved data if the first character is a null byte you get no data, try it yourself, you'll download the whole page and get nothing out, because EVERYONE KNOWS strings are NULL terminated. Anyways how do you know the server never even sent any data, for an old dude you don't know too much about data types
 
slimothy said:
because EVERYONE KNOWS strings are NULL terminated.
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Not always ... in strongly typed languages like Pascal where the first bit contains the length or Java with it's Strings class.

slimothy said:
for an old dude you don't know too much about data types
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Sure Slim :)
 
Not always ... in strongly typed languages like Pascal where the first bit contains the length or Java with it's Strings class.
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I make strings null terminated in all the code I write, the reason for this is to make my life easier, and to get products out ON TIME!

I am led to believe you are also some teenager on this forum, therefore, me being a good 10 years older than you, I do not have to listen to you and will treat you thus the same as that other whatsit face in the UK by IGNORING you!
 
Amazing this thread is, next we will be yapping about tchar, bstr, wchar, wchar_t, what next...?
 
ic said:
Amazing this thread is, next we will be yapping about tchar, bstr, wchar, wchar_t, what next...?
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Confused, this forum is. Hard to read without laughing. :)
 
Kei said:
I make strings null terminated in all the code I write, the reason for this is to make my life easier, and to get products out ON TIME!

I am led to believe you are also some teenager on this forum, therefore, me being a good 10 years older than you, I do not have to listen to you and will treat you thus the same as that other whatsit face in the UK by IGNORING you!
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Kei, what's with the continual hostility? BTW, t.d has posted somewhere that he's married with children & aged - perhaps as a result..., but I'd guess t.d is older than the age you are projecting to the forum...

If you need to vent, do it in a private message, or somewhere else more appropriate.

Regards

ic.
 
ic said:
Kei, what's with the continual hostility? BTW, t.d has posted somewhere that he's married with children & aged - perhaps as a result..., but I'd guess t.d is older than the age you are projecting to the forum...

If you need to vent, do it in a private message, or somewhere else more appropriate.
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Damn you IC, stole my response again ;) Or just for slim: IC you damn, response again you stole
 
Its from the dark side....

Ant to clarify - I have a web-based gallery i batch-upload pictures to...

1. Upload them via Polka Dial-up - works 100%
2. Upload them via MTN GRPS - works 100%
3. Upload them via iBurst - fails continously with "Zero Sized Reply" and an iburst Logo on the top from their Squid Proxy Cache-wannabe.

Oh yes and thats from the SAME PC :)
 
Not sure, but it may be worth trying to change your MTU size. I have known connections to hang when MTU is too big and some firewall is blocking icmp pmtu discovery packets. Its just possible such a hang could cause the proxy to timeout or get such a message.
 
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ic said:
Kei, what's with the continual hostility? BTW, t.d has posted somewhere that he's married with children & aged - perhaps as a result..., but I'd guess t.d is older than the age you are projecting to the forum...

If you need to vent, do it in a private message, or somewhere else more appropriate.

Regards

ic.
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patience ic... a great anger i sense in this one... moving to the darkside, T'elKom he thinks.
 
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