[Rabbit-proxy-users] BBC News images fail

[Murray K. <kde...@ya...>]

whilst trying to surf http://news.bbc.co.uk/ I get a
lot of messages like these in the error logs

[05/Jan/2004:21:39:34 GMT][WARN][Failed to connect
socket:java.io.IOException: Could not connect to the
site: newsimg.bbc.co.uk/212.58.226.30:80]
[05/Jan/2004:21:39:34 GMT][WARN][couldnt connect to
the remote site (connect timed out)]

the site also loads painfully slowly, as it appears to
have to wait for ever for each image, which often then
never turns up.

surfing to the site at the same time, in a non-proxied
browser works fine.

any idea what is going on, and how it could be fixed?

future feature suggestion : maintain state for a
domain across multiple requests.  For instance, after
10 successive requests (or >75% total) for images from
a domain have failed, replace any future requests for
images from that domain with a holding graphic,
similar to what is done with advert images now.

This could "timeout", and or silently re-try for the
real image on later requests, and if the site came
back to life, RabbIT could switch the images back in.

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