On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:33 AM, drew wymore <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Derek Loree <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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/
>>
>> > Drew-
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>> Derek Loree <[email protected]>
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>
> Ah my bad, thanks for the clarification.
>
> Maybe try turning off encoding support on your test client assuming
> Firefox  and see what happens.
>
>
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.accept-encoding#Possible_values_and_their_effects
>
> According to www.netcraft.com sourceforge.net is running a F5 Big-IP:
> http://www.f5.com/products/big-ip/ which has its own built in webserver.
> I've found some config files floating around for the webserver running on it
> and maybe it's sending some weird content compression encoding that doesn't
> involve gzip || deflate which seem to be the default accepted values in
> Firefox. Maybe they're sending compress instead and it needs to be added.
> The Firebug add-on for Firefox will show you the headers being sent by the
> server.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Drew-
>

It looks to be sending only gzip compressed data according to

http://www.port80software.com/tools/compresscheck.asp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fawstats.sourceforge.net&Submit1=Check+Compression
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