Comcast, Firefox, google, youtube

Ward Vandewege ward at pong.be
Tue Sep 26 15:38:51 EDT 2006


On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 03:27:55PM -0400, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> Konqueror works too (I can actually search with google).  But Firefox (both
> linux and windoze) doesn't seem to work for me.  Looking at the packet dump,
> I just never get a reply to the GET request, and it keeps re-transmitting
> the GET.
> 
> Maybe the problem is on google's end?

Nope; things work just fine from here (on a Speakeasy connection).

Does Comcast do some funky transparent proxying for http?

Ward.

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