[Filterproxy-devel] Re: Compression bug (?) in FilterProxy

[Bob M. <mce...@dr...>]

Shlomi Yaakobovich [shl...@ya...] wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I've noticed that when I receive compressed content
> from the proxy, my browser (MSIE 5.5) sometimes
> crashes, pretty much consistently, while without
> compressed data it does not crash. Is this a bug in
> the proxy, or the browser ?  Is there any way around
> it ?  I'm really interested in 5x speed...=20

Hmmm...I suspect a browser bug.  I have tested it with the following
(linux) browsers:
Mozilla (0.8 onward)
Netscape 4.x
Netscape 3.x
StarOffice
Galeon
Skipstone
Konqueror

=2E..and none of them had a problem with compressed data, so I suspect a
browser bug.  (Netscape has a few bugs with compressed data too...but
doesn't crash, just displays binary junk -- in <iframe>'s)

Try this URL:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/http-wg/messages/8730?expand=3D1
WITHOUT the proxy and see if it crashes your browser.  This particular
yahoo server also spits out compressed content.  See if it crashes your
browser.

Also, turn on debug, and also turn on "Dump headers to log file" in the
Header main config page.  Check if your browser is sending the
Accept-Encoding header.  If all else fails, mail the FilterProxy.log
file to me (with debug and headers dumped to log file turned on!) and
I'll take a look at it.

What's the latest version of MSIE?  Might be worthwhile to upgrade...

Cheers,
-- Bob

Bob McElrath (rsm...@st...)=20
Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics