I'll try that, but I'm not sure that's the cause... maps.secondlife.com loads like molasses when going there directly from firefox, but when I go through tor it loads instantaneously.
Cheers LC Am 08.11.2014 um 22:01 schrieb Henri Beauchamp: > On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 21:51:41 +0100, Lance Corrimal wrote: > >> ok interesting factoid here: >> >> I've set my viewer to go through the tor network for web pages... and >> blam, profiles load fine. >> >> now if someone please explain to me why the official viewer and the >> binary built from viewer-release load web profiles just fine without this... > Wild guess: a firewall/web cache on your ISP's side, filtering HTTP > requests based off the user agent (the official viewer advertizes > "Second Life", TPVs advertize their own name: if the web cache/firewall > filters out "unknown" (rare/custom) user agents, then you are in trouble). > > To verify this, configure Firefox' user agent string with the same user > agent string as a TPV (it should appear in the viewer log), and try > loading a web profile in that TPV-impersonating Firefox configuration... > > Henri. > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
