On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 01:04 -0700, drew wymore wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Derek Loree <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've got a problem that I hope you all can help me with.
> >
> > The goal: A content filtering proxy server for a small number of users
> > that don't need to pay for the service, no need for a captive portal.
> > Log file display or conveyance has been requested.
> >
> > Current setup:  Puppy Linux setup with the devx pup, manual installs of
> > dualserver (for DHCP and DNS), tinyproxy and dansguardian.  A firewall
> > rule to redirect port 80 to 8080 (where dansguardian is listening) to
> > make it a transparent proxy.  Another to block the port that tinyproxy
> > is listening on.
> >
> > Using my laptop as a test client, everything works as advertised until I
> > point my browser at the Awstats home page (looking for a log display
> > solution).  The error that I get with Firefox in Windows and most
> > browsers in linux is "Content Encoding Error" and some verbage about an
> > incompatible compression scheme.  IE, of course, only gives the usual
> > "Page cannot be displayed" error.  If I by-pass dansguardian by turning
> > on the proxy setting in the browser and pointing it at tinyproxy, I can
> > see the awstat web site.  So, the cause of the error is dansguardian,
> > however, the error is not generated by dansguardian.  It is generated by
> > the browser.  The log files do not say anything about any problems, all
> > is normal according to them.
> >
> > The only clue I found had to do with zlib encoding, so I rebuilt
> > dansguardian with the --with-zlib-static switch so that the zlib library
> > would be statically linked.  No change.  I tried changing all kinds of
> > configuration options.  No change.  I downloaded the source code for
> > zlib and installed it.  No change.  I rebuilt dansguardian, again.  No
> > change.
> >
> > I feel like I'm missing something, mainly because this does not seem to
> > have stumped very many people, and dansguardian is not the only cause.
> > The disheartening part is that the pleas for help went unanswered.
> >
> > Now I am crying for help, please help with any clues you might have.
> >
> > Thank you sincerely,
> >
> > --
> > Derek Loree <[email protected]>
> >
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> 
> I assume awstats is hosted on a local webserver? Perhaps disabling content
> compression support in Apache might do the trick.
> 
No, I meant the real website: http://awstats.sourceforge.net/

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Derek Loree <[email protected]>
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