On 4 April 2011 13:15, 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.
Like Bruce says -- host entries won't help if you're in Telstra or one of their downstreams, due to their proxy. Can you provide that full error message? someone may recognise whether it's from a common browser or a popular ISP's transparent proxy. -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
