Re: [Webcleaner-users] WebCleaner 2.39 problem

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I saw something similar while playing with webcleaner.  I think it's 
related to compression and chunked transfers.  Somehow the chunks produce 
leftover data at the beginning/end of the block when decompressed.  Try 
disabling the Compress filter in the config and see if that helps.

Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> Hello.
> 
>    Recently I encountered a problem. I have upgraded Firefox to 1.5.0.4 and
> SeaMonkey to 1.0.2. Immediately after upgrade I found most sites look
> incorrectly - the browsers ignore almost all images. Initially I thought
> this is a problem with the browsers but after some experiments I found it
> is webcleaner that breaks images.
>    Also I found that in the upper left corner of the screen (or of an every
> frame) there are some strange additional characters, usually numbers. They
> are added by webcleaner.
>    I did an investigation. I wrote a shell script to download files with
> and without webcleaner:
> 
> http_proxy=http://localhost:3333 GET "$1"
> name="`basename \"$1\"`"
> mv "$name" "$name-webc"
> http_proxy=http://localhost:3128 GET "$1"
> 
>    (I run webcleaner on port 3333) and tested some files. I found
> webcleaner adds garbage to files. For example this is how webcleaner
> transforms http://python.org/index.html :
> 
> 148^M
> 
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html lang="en" xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <head>
> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type"/>
> <title>Python Programming Language -- Official Website</title>5c4f
> 
> [skip]
> 
> </body>
> </html>
> 0^M
> ^M
> 
>    (I use ^M to mark 0x0d (\r) character also added by webcleaner). So it
> seems webcleaner adds some garbage in the beginning, at the end, and even in
> the middle of the file (after </title>, e.g.)
>    What's up? Is it a bug in webcleaner? or my local configuration?
> 
> Oleg.