Re: [NANOG] support.microsoft.com?

2008-04-24 Thread Colin Alston
Ben O'Hara wrote: > Fixed it with a > > # Fix support.microsoft.com by removing > Accept-Encoding header > acl support.microsoft.com dstdomain > support.microsoft.com > header_access Accept-Encoding deny

Re: [NANOG] support.microsoft.com?

2008-04-24 Thread Chris Stone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bjørn Mork wrote: > Not only that. They are actually redirecting to a 404 not found page > based on User-Agent. Compare these two requests: > > The site is designed specifically NOT to work except if you've got an > approved browser. I guess they

Re: [NANOG] support.microsoft.com?

2008-04-24 Thread Bjørn Mork
Colin Alston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone else noticed strange things with support.microsoft.com? > > If I wget it ('http://support.microsoft.com/') from anywhere, I get an > index.html fine. > > If I use lynx, I get gibberish (gzipped content, without a correct header) > > If I use F

Re: [NANOG] support.microsoft.com?

2008-04-24 Thread Jutta Zalud
Marshall Eubanks wrote on 24. April 2008 at 15:07: > It looks to me like they are doing file compression on the site. > (E.g., there seems to be an index.html.gz file there.) > This practice is described in "High Performance Web Sites" and other > fine publications. I > would be curious to kno

Re: [NANOG] support.microsoft.com?

2008-04-24 Thread Jack Bates
Colin Alston wrote: > If I use Firefox or IE behind some Squid proxies in certain places, it > doesn't understand the content either. IE in particular using HTTP 1.1 by default, but has HTTP 1.1 via proxy turned off. It's a check box in the advanced tab. Also required when your proxy does it's

Re: [NANOG] support.microsoft.com?

2008-04-24 Thread Ben O'Hara
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Colin Alston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone else noticed strange things with support.microsoft.com? > > If I wget it ('http://support.microsoft.com/') from anywhere, I get an > index.html fine. > > If I use lynx, I get gibberish (gzipped content, without a

Re: [NANOG] support.microsoft.com?

2008-04-24 Thread Marc Manthey
Am 24.04.2008 um 14:47 schrieb Colin Alston: > Has anyone else noticed strange things with support.microsoft.com? > > If I wget it ('http://support.microsoft.com/') from anywhere, I get an > index.html fine. > > If I use lynx, I get gibberish (gzipped content, without a correct > header) > > If

Re: [NANOG] support.microsoft.com?

2008-04-24 Thread Marshall Eubanks
It looks to me like they are doing file compression on the site. (E.g., there seems to be an index.html.gz file there.) This practice is described in "High Performance Web Sites" and other fine publications. I would be curious to know if this is a problem with Lynx or with their site setup.

[NANOG] support.microsoft.com?

2008-04-24 Thread Colin Alston
Has anyone else noticed strange things with support.microsoft.com? If I wget it ('http://support.microsoft.com/') from anywhere, I get an index.html fine. If I use lynx, I get gibberish (gzipped content, without a correct header) If I use Firefox or IE behind some Squid proxies in certain place