> Hi all, Hi Nick,
> I've had this issue with surf forever, but it is gradually becoming > more of a problem as the web gets ever further away from HTML pages > served over HTTP. > > When using Tor+Privoxy in standard configuration, and sending surf's > traffic through that by setting the http_proxy and https_proxy > environment variables, complex pages generally never fully load. > Specifically, they will partly load, say to 80%, but remaining > transfers never complete. When I say "complex pages", I mean pages > which have serious javascript stuff going on, like Google Maps and > Google Docs. Sometimes they load fine, but more often they do not. > I put up a screenshot of an example failure with the web inspector > at: https://njw.name/tmp/surfmaps.png Sadly, the webkit process is managing connexions, surf itself doesn't. > This never happens when using Tor Browser, though that uses its own > Tor process. AFAIK, Tor Browser is Firefox. > I don't find connection problems using Tor+Privoxy with other tools > like youtube-dl or wget, but then there aren't so many simultaneous > requests. Could you try with other webkitgtk-based broswers (like midori, epiphany) to see if you get the same issue? > Possibly related (though I haven't had time to investigate much > yet), the cloudflare captcha page often fails to load the captcha > part of the page, with a "400 Bad Request" on the payload URL that > looks like this > https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/payload?c=[longstring] > > As you can tell, I haven't done a lot of debugging on this as of > yet, but I thought I'd post here to see if others have experienced > the same issues, or have any thoughts as to the cause of them. Thank you for letting us know, although I'm not sure we can do a lot there sadly. I'll try to investigate this if you get more details though.
