[isf-wifidog] Re: Very slow / broken HTTP?

[Alexandre Carmel-Veilleux]

	How about doing a "manual" HTTP request? i.e.:

(echo "GET / HTTP/1.0"; echo "") | nc web.server.com 80

	The output should appear almost immediately.

Alex

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 01:42:37PM -0500, Joseph Luk wrote:
> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:42:37 -0500
> From: Joseph Luk <joe at josephluk.com>
> Subject: Re: [isf-wifidog] Re: Very slow / broken HTTP?
> To: Alexandre Carmel-Veilleux <saruman at northernhacking.org>,
> 	WiFiDog Captive Portal <wifidog at listes.ilesansfil.org>,
> 	Mina Naguib <webmaster at topfx.com>
> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2)
> 
> Thanks for the quick replies!  Hmm... that's an interesting 
> possibility.  The symptoms kind of sound like it -- HTTP connection 
> startup problems, things get overloaded and everything grinds to a halt 
> after a number of connection attempts, and using an HTTP proxy fixes 
> the problem.
> 
> I'm using Mac OS X, but I checked to make sure there were no automatic 
> proxy config settings in the system or browser. Could it be that some 
> kind of odd HTTP header is being sent to the client causing it to look 
> for a proxy?  Are others with Mac OS X experiencing the same problems?
> 
> Thanks very much for your help in tracking down his problem!
> 
> Cheers,
> Joe
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 27, 2005, at 11:12 AM, Alexandre Carmel-Veilleux wrote:
> 
> >
> >From: Alexandre Carmel-Veilleux <saruman at northernhacking.org>
> >Date: February 27, 2005 11:11:43 AM EST
> >To: WiFiDog Captive Portal <wifidog at listes.ilesansfil.org>
> >Subject: Re: [isf-wifidog] Re: Very slow / broken HTTP?
> >Reply-To: WiFiDog Captive Portal <wifidog at listes.ilesansfil.org>
> >
> >
> >On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 09:56:10AM -0500, Mina Naguib wrote:
> >>
> >>Thanks for the informative email and the diagnostics.
> >>
> >>I have no idea what may be causing this.  I'm passing your email along
> >>to the rest of the technical group of IleSansFil to pick their brains.
> >
> >	Is Windows trying to auto configure a proxy server? I've had this
> >problem before.
> >
> >Alex
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