> "Gregory S. Read" wrote:
> >
> > However, some HTTP sites are just impossible. A few sites that I can think
> > of off hand that DON'T work are...
It would be helpful if you could describe exactly HOW it doesn't work.
Does the name fail to lookup? Does the connection start, and it just
hang with 'Trying to contact...'? Does the connection succeed, and it
hangs with 'Waiting for response...'? Does it start to get some sort of
page, but fails to finish? Does it only work on the
third/fourth/twelfth try?
The listfolk here are giving you some good advice, but it's all just a
shot in the dark if you don't give more information.
A more useful way to gather info is to try "raw telnet" to the web page:
telnet www.yahoo.com 80 <enter>
HEAD / HTTP/1.0 <enter>
<enter>
This tries a short request to the respective server, and spits the
results out for you to see. If you get something, try typing "GET"
instead of "HEAD" in the request. Always remember to press <enter>
twice when you send requests this way. :)
I found when I hit this problem that I could send short requests (like
"HEAD") and they would work, but larger requests ("GET") would never
come back. I later found this to be the MTU/MRU problem described
before. However, my situation was different. My masq box could not
connect to the site, but a masq'd box behind the firewall COULD. This
is exactly opposite to your described problem. So the problem may be
elsewhere.
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