Websites not loading properly

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lrossouw

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Hi guys

Some websites I am using have stopped loading properly. www.flickr.com, www.facebook.com etc. Pages become garbled.

This is has been repeated with IE and Firefox on the same PC and on a different PC(laptop). On the same laptop from work things are fine.

The only thing is my router but I suspect it is the ADSL\Telkom\Imaginet. Get some bits on these pages that say Access Forbidden etc. I use different firewalls and AV on the different PCs as well.

Not using any proxy or anything like that.

Regards
Louis
 
lrossouw said:
Some websites I am using have stopped loading properly. www.flickr.com, www.facebook.com etc. Pages become garbled....Get some bits on these pages that say Access Forbidden etc. I use different firewalls and AV on the different PCs as well.
Not using any proxy or anything like that.
Regards
Louis
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I got this as well yesterday sometime on www.imdb.com from 2 PC's, same line, different ISP's. Something like "Access Denied By Access Control List" and no pictures loading.
 
It's been doing it to me all morning as well using StumbleUpon :(

I'm gonna re-enable the Telkom ADSL cache... and see if that makes a difference.

Proxy: dsl-cache.saix.net
Port: 8080
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Most international sites are loading extremely slow today but there's no notice on the Telkom SAIX noticeboard of anything being down. Weird.
Yes, when I enable the SAIX proxy in the browser it helps but I don't like doing that if you're visiting websites where you have to login, due to privacy issues.

Anyone else experiencing slow speeds when loading intern sites? It's very erratic for me, then it works, then it doesn't. :(
 
1. Clear your cache.
2. Try bypassing SAIX's transparent proxy. Use cache.saix.net port 3128

It looks like the transparent proxy is fscked today.
 
arf9999 said:
1. Clear your cache.
2. Try bypassing SAIX's transparent proxy. Use cache.saix.net port 3128

It looks like the transparent proxy is fscked today.
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It does appear to be a problem with SAIX's transparent proxy. Setting up your browser to use cache.saix.net:8080 has fixed this problem for everyone I have dealt with that has experienced this problem.
 
But can you safely use cache.saix.net if you browse websites where you have to provide a username/password? I mean, since it's going through another cache server now, the username/pwd info can be easily intercepted on the cache server? I have a problem with that...
So even if enabling cache.saix.net solves the browsing speed, it's still not 1st prize.
 
Globetrotter said:
But can you safely use cache.saix.net if you browse websites where you have to provide a username/password? I mean, since it's going through another cache server now, the username/pwd info can be easily intercepted on the cache server? I have a problem with that...
So even if enabling cache.saix.net solves the browsing speed, it's still not 1st prize.
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If the authentication server is using encryption you should be fine. Look for the https://

if it is not then use a bogus or generic username and password.

I've never had a problem and I've been using the cache since 2005.

The cache only feeds you information that has been cached by others, it will only cache information that if generally accessible not encrypted information since that is useless to others. Am I right?
 
Garyvdh said:
If the authentication server is using encryption you should be fine. Look for the https://
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Yes.

Garyvdh said:
if it is not then use a bogus or generic username and password.
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Don't understand what you mean. You need to use the username/password you registered on that site with, to log in to that site to be recognized and linked to your existing profile, otherwise it would defeat the purpose of signing in? :)

Garyvdh said:
I've never had a problem and I've been using the cache since 2005.
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The fact that your own security has not been compromised is not proof that it's safe to pass username/passwords through a cache server.
Garyvdh said:
The cache only feeds you information that has been cached by others, it will only cache information that if generally accessible not encrypted information since that is useless to others. Am I right?
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That's how I understand it too but if you log in to a site that's not encrypted then a page may be cached that only you were supposed to see and now that it passes through the cache server, it may be served to someone else too.

It's probably not a big deal, but I've always felt uncomfortable using a cache server and sites that require logins at the same time. Unfortunately the amount of sites I log in to (like this one) are quite a lot so it would defeat the purpose of avoiding them, just to use the cache server safely.

The other reason why I prefer to make a direct connection to the internet is simply to be 100% sure I get the latest possible updated version of the page I'm visiting.
 
The cache will not serve anything personal, it is no different in operation to the existing transparent proxy, other than the fact that it works.
 
Globetrotter said:
The other reason why I prefer to make a direct connection to the internet is simply to be 100% sure I get the latest possible updated version of the page I'm visiting.
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I hate to tell you this, but you're always using a proxy for international http traffic unless you've got some fancy tunnelling software set up. The reason that it is called a "transparent" proxy is because you don't see it.
 
arf9999 said:
I hate to tell you this, but you're always using a proxy for international http traffic unless you've got some fancy tunnelling software set up. The reason that it is called a "transparent" proxy is because you don't see it.
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Yes, I just assumed that the transparent proxy is simply safer than the cache.saix.net server. I've mentioned elsewhere on the forum that the transparent proxy was down on a previous occasion, so I'm aware of its existence. :)
 
Damn. I suppose my gmail suddenly not working is related to this. Can someone confirm, is gmail not working for anyone else?
 
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