[mythtv-users] Internet won't work thru proxy

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Dec 3, 2003, at 11:58, Lance Tost wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
>> On Wednesday 03 December 2003 13:27, Tony Maro wrote:
>>> Just FYI:
>>>
>>> I have a Squid proxy with Dansguardian in my house that is
>>> transparently redirected to from outgoing port 80's...
>>>
>>> in other words, a transparent filtering proxy.
>>>
>>> The URL's that MythTV access for weather, imdb, etc... all work from
>>> a browser, but within MythTV they fail if going thru the transparent
>>> proxy.
>>>
>>> I had to reconfigure my firewall to NOT redirect the outbound 80 for
>>> the IP that is my MythTV box.
>>
>> The problem is more likely Dansguardian, I'd think.  MythVideo and
>> MythWeather expect to parse an html file formatted in a particular 
>> way,
>> I believe.  If Dansguardian is performing substitutions (removing ads,
>> rewriting URLs, etc), this could screw up Myth.  Rather than remove
>> your proxy from the loop, I'd just configure Squid to not pass content
>> from msnbc.com or imdb.com through Dansguardian, but to simply return
>> it unfiltered.
>
> I'm not sure about this actually.  I need to do some testing when I get
> home.  However, I had a problem with apt-get and [b|g]zipped files.  I
> googled and found someone suggesting it was Dansguardian so I set my
> http_proxy env variable to http://proxy:8080 thinking that I would 
> bypass
> dansguardian and go directly to my proxy.  That worked (fixed apt-get) 
> but
> I just now realized that squid is running on port 3128 and 
> dansguardian is
> running on 8080!  So that means dansguardian wasn't breaking apt-get, 
> but
> rather the transparent proxy'ing of port 80 was.
>
> This may or may not be the same problem that's affecting MythWeather, 
> etc
> (FWIW, I too was having problems with MythWeather not retreiving data 
> but
> I shelved it until I got everything else figured out).

I pass 100% of my traffic through a transparent squid proxy, 
sans-dansguardian, and there are zero problems with anything. The 
problem may be the combination of the two, I don't know.

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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