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

[Tony Maro]

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

>On Wednesday 03 December 2003 13:27, Tony Maro wrote:
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>>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.
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>>
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>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.
>
>-JAC
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Well it's not doing any substitutions, but it might be screwing up the 
headers maybe?  I've looked at the Dansguardian logs, and it says it's 
feeding it all back just fine, no changes or blocking.  However, by 
adding some debug code into the routines that grab the weather I was 
able to determine that after requesting the web page, the HTML content 
is returning blank in the object, prior to parsing.

I'm not really concerned with using or not using the proxy - it's mainly 
there for the kid's computer to keep them from stumbling into something 
unexpected.

Anyway, as mentioned, it's not even returning any data from the object 
to _be_ parsed.  the HTTPData variable in weather.cpp is blank before 
parsing.

Initially I tried the Manrake 9.1 RPM's for MythTV linked from the 
website... On that version, if you tried to access the IMDB through the 
proxy it would segfault.  My personally compiled copy running in 
Mandrake 9.2 would just return nothing.  Also, it would return nothing 
IMMEDIATELY - whereas even in a web browser it would take a second to 
get through the Internet and the proxy (my proxy box is kinda slow).  
Perhaps it's thinking the connection has closed because the proxy 
doesn't return something it expects?

-Tony