To test the transparent proxy theory, you could try running the web server on a custom port for the purpose of testing (assuming, of course, that you have the rights to do this).
Thanks, Nathan. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Bruce Clement <[email protected]>wrote: > It's been a long time since I've seen this type of effect and I never > really got to the bottom of it but at the time I came to the conclusion that > it was probably a misconfigured "Transparent" proxy at my then ISP that > timed out and invented a 404 response. > > I solved my problem by using socks forwarding over ssh. Is this an option > for your customer? > > If it is a DNS timeout as Brenda suggests, you could (partially) test for > this by adding the site to /etc/hosts or > c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts ... naturally this will only work if > "transparent" proxying isn't in effect. > > HTH > > Bruce > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Brenda Wallace <[email protected]>wrote: > >> are you sure it's a "page not found" error? >> a time out to your webserver shouldn't cause a 404 >> >> it may be a DNS timeout. >> >> On 31 March 2011 14:06, Murray <[email protected]> wrote: >> [...] >> > The client is complaining that when he fills in the article and >> > submits the form that his browser appears to do nothing for a few >> > minutes and then it comes back with a page not found error. >> > >> > The server that is hosting the website is in Wellington. Everything >> > appears to be working ok for me in Auckland. While the client was in >> > NZ it worked fine, but now he is in Malaysia and the problem has >> > started. >> > >> > I'm thinking that it's possible that his connection is slow and there >> > is some sort of timeout happening somewhere. I assume that browsers >> > only wait so long for a response after submitting a form and then give >> > an error, is this correct? Is this timeout something that can be >> > altered? Or is it possible that Apache has some sort of timeout and >> > is closing the connection? >> > >> > > -- > Bruce Clement > > Home: http://www.clement.co.nz/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/Bruce_Clement > Directory: http://www.searchme.co.nz/ > > "Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good > appreciation of everything that already exists in this field." Mikhail > Kalashnikov > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
