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[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 12:02:46AM -0400, ron.peterson at yellowbank.com wrote:
> I've done this, and it works perfectly.  As long as I'm running my
> browser from linux.  When I switch to Windows, no matter whether I use
> Mozilla or IE, it sometimes works, but sometimes doesn't.  The other odd
> thing is, that if I do 'telnet gateway 80' in Windows, I get the
> expected redirect HTTP/HTML text every time.  Another curiousity is that
> when I run ethereal on the fake gateway machine, and watch all traffic
> to/from the Windows box, I see the same pattern of traffic on successful
> page loads as on failed page loads.
> 
> Any ideas why this might behave so erratically?

When something works from a Linux box but not from a Windows box, and it
works as expected when hand-telnet'ing from the Windows box, it's time
to suspect something going on with the Windows software.

Can you characterize "sometimes works, but sometimes doesn't" any more
closely for us? Is it different when you use IE first versus Mozilla
first? When a different Windows box is used?

-dsr-

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