> On 8 Jun 2015, at 2:10 pm, david <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I have a "business ethernet" internet connection from a TPG reseller.
> 
> Suddenly some external websites or partial websites are inaccessible from 
> local clients. I haven't yet figured out a pattern, but it looks like 
> javascript or some such is holding up the webpage download. The browser is 
> waiting for a script or css or something not immediately obvious. I get the 
> same problem with different browsers.

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> For example, http://www.trivago.com.au waits indefinitely for jse.trivago.com 
> and never loads, although I can telnet to port 80. BTW, lynx works fine - 
> which makes me more suspicious that it's CSS or some such.

FWIW, you can test the jse.trivago.com request by manually requesting (from 
Safari on OS X): 
http://jse.trivago.com/osp/v9_05_4ae/pricesearch/js/common.es5.ltr.ec.js

It’s just a big JS library for hunting prices down.  I had some fun messing 
round with the local copy, so some prices for $1000+/night hotels came up as 
“FREE!”…would be fun getting them to price match that :)

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As for the weird connectivity, I know TPG for a long time ran transparent 
proxies without really making it widely known.  I’ve seen similar behaviour to 
that which you describe when my local Squid cache get’s it’s panties in a 
bunch.  “squid -k restart” usually does the trick.  However, before rattling 
TPG’s cage, maybe try flushing the browser cache and see if the problems 
persist.

Good luck.

-- 
James

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