RE: Microsoft proxy

the behavior described below was exhibited in Microsoft Proxy Server 1.0.   

Proxy Server 2.0 'fixes' this by just closing the connection if we get a
timeout / reset from the server.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drazen Kacar [mailto:dave@fly.cc.fer.hr]
> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 1998 6:14 AM
> To: http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> Subject: Microsoft proxy
> 
> 
> I got this from wget maintainer. As far as I know, proxies aren't
> supposed to append anything to the requested resource.
> However, I've been off-line for more than a year and I haven't
> digested the most recent HTTP spec. So, could someone tell
> me if this is legal?
> 
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> Subject: [Simon Munton <simonm@m4data.co.uk>] RE: wget 1.5.3 
> on Windows 98/NT, using MSVC 6
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> To: "'Hrvoje Niksic'" <hniksic@srce.hr>
> Subject: RE: wget 1.5.3 on Windows 98/NT, using MSVC 6
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> What seems to happen is this: part way through the download, 
> there is an
> error,
> eg timeout, and it seems that in addition MS proxy server sends a text
> string that gets put
> on the end of the downloaded file. Something like:
> 		 "HTTP Proxy error: Connection timed out".
> 
> When wget retries, this error message gets left embedded in the
> downloaded file.
> So the final file looks like:
> 
> <-------Good Data--------><---HTTP Proxy error 
> message----><-------Good
> data---->
> 
> Hope this makes sense. If you'd like me to try and find out more
> specific details
> of what's going on, let me know. 
> 
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> >
> >> I also use wget through Microsoft Proxy server, which has 
> a habit of
> >> sending error messages which get appended to the files being
> >> downloaded, and when wget retries getting the file, the downloaded
> >> file ends up with these messages in the middle.  I added a 
> couple of
> >> changes to ftp.c and http.c (diffs below), so that they 
> 'back up' by
> >> 2048 bytes when retrying, thereby getting rid of the error message
> >> embedded in the file.  (2048 seems to work for me).
> >
> >I don't understand this part.  How does the server send these error
> >messages, and exactly how do they get "appended to the files"?
> >
> >-- 
> >Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
> >--------------------------------+--------------------------------
> >Mix 2 table spoons sugar with 1 spoon salt.  Put it in a bottle
> >and stick a fuse into it.  Say "Shit!" when it doesn't detonate.
> >
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