On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 06:02:22 -0500 "Paul Derbyshire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> at 127.0.0.1:8888 in ie 6.x. I know my ISP (cable) has some sort of > wonky caching of web pages, as evidenced by intermittent random 500- > series errors I never got on dial-up and the odd out-of-date page > coming up but not when I hit "refresh". But their webcache shouldn't > affect loopback, should it? Here's a quick way to test. Fire up a command prompt, and then type: telnet 127.0.0.1 8888 Hit Enter. When the connection opens, type: HEAD / HTTP/1.0 Then hit Enter twice. The response should look something like this: HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 05:43:59 GMT Pragma: no-cache Location: /servlet/nodeinfo/ Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0 Connection: close Content-length: 191 Content-type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1 Server: Fred 0.5 (build 5060) HTTP Servlets The line you're interested in is "Server: Fred 0.5 ... ." If anything other than Fred is reported as the server, then either some other application on your PC is using port 8888 or your browser is forwarding every request to a proxy. > It reveals an IP address of 24.192.41.163 This does appear to be your IP address. It shows in the mail headers, and port 8888 is open. > We have received a request from 66.185.84.80 for subscription..." Probably transparent proxying. Yuck. Still shouldn't affect localhost, though. Have you checked your browser configuration to see if 66.185.84.80 has been explicitly defined as a proxy? If so, assuming IE, is "Bypass proxy for local addresses" checked? -s _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support
