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Re: Hompages problem with proxy server

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From: Secret Squirrel
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 00:00
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 In article <882738008.29199.0.nnrp-04.9e98f145@news.demon.co.uk>
  dbolt@my-ste.demon.co.uk (David Bolt) wrote:-

>On 20 Dec 97 22:37:40 G, Secret Squirrel wrote:
>> For the past week or so I've been unable to access my homepage or some other
>> Demon customer homepages.
>> 
>> I get "placeholder for NOCOL" and "there's nothing here". When trying to
>> follow the link to the errors page I get "access denied".
>
>I used to get that error page too, but when I followed the link it took me
>to Demons pages. I've not had the 'access denied' error as yet.
>

'access denied' appeared when trying to use the error link after viewing the
index of www.the-gap.demon.co.uk
  
>> Gary Priest's page (www.the-gap.demon.co.uk) can be viewed but none of his
>> others.
>>  
>> www.flinny.demon.co.uk receives the 'placeholder' response.
>> 
>> There is no prob. viewing non Demon www pages via the proxy server, nor is
>> there any difficulty in retrieving Demon homepages without the proxy.
>> 
>> Anyone else experiencing these difficulties?
>
>I had it, a couple of weeks ago. It started as soon as I used the new
>CAB.OVL v1.2704 instead of v1.2618. It seems as though this overlay doesn't
>like the proxy cache for demon pages, even though for 1.2618 the proxy was
>needed. I had an interesting discussion with the helpdesk about this.
>Although I never saw anything mentioned, I think they upgraded(?) the proxy
>caching software.
>

I'm using v1.2704 as well.

>The best thing to do is disable the proxy caching. That way there's no more
>errors.

Looks like it :-(

BFN,

Larry.


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From: larry@its1984.demon.co.uk (Secret Squirrel)
Subject: Re: Hompages problem with proxy server
Date: 1997/12/22
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