Re: [OT] Strange Router problem - Netgear DG834G

["Rob Iles" <rob.iles@xxxxxxxxx>]

Keith,

Are you by any chance using BT (Openworld) as your ISP?

If so, I share your problems! I've spent about 12 hours on the telephone so
far trying to explain to them that one of their transparent proxy servers
"has issues"!!!

First time I've ever seen a "Length Required" message (stopp
giggling at the
back!).

Basically, it looks (to me) like their squid cache was broken. It was
breaking session state/"chunking" - so any website that requred
state to be
maintained (such as some forums, gmail etc), were effectively broken.

Most annoying.

temp fix: route your outbound requests through a proxy (google: public
proxy
servers), and add one or more into your browsers config.

If you're not a BT customer, then this is just a spooky coincidence!
(maybe?!)

Cheers,

Rob


On 6/14/07, Keith Doxey <ukha@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Hi All,
>
> Wonder if anyone has experience the same or similar problem to the one
I
> have just had.
>
> We were happily accessing internet sites with no problems when Sharon
got
> thrown out of the web forum she was on and was unable to log in again.
>
> Tried on three different computers and any site that required a login
> failed. Some of the forums just threw you back to the login page or
the
> home
> page asking guests to login.
>
> AutomatedHome Forums gave an error message "Length Required"
as did an ASP
> base site that I wrote and run for a local voluntary group.
>
> The problem was definitely with connecting to the outside world as I
could
> access a local copy of my website hosted on my intranet.
>
> Rebooted the router (Netgear DG834G) remotely a couple of times but
that
> didn't help an I even powered it down to no avail.
>
> Fired up an Old School DIAL UP connection on the laptop and was able
to
> access all the sites correctly but god was it slooooooooooooooooooooow
:(
>
> I think the problem was somehow related to session variables as I
could
> search on Google but couldn't log into it.
>
> Dug my old BT Voyager 200 out and plugged that in instead and all is
> working
> fine.
>
> Anyone got any theories as to what the problem might be ??????
>
> Thanks
>
> Keith
>
>
>


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