I got a couple responses back today and in summation it appears to be a
proxy problem on the server. The bug apparently can be easily corrected on
the server side and they will be fixing it shortly. The phpbb.com proxy
doesn't strip the packet content length on a http 1.0 connection -- which is
why you get a 4 digit code randomly in the html source. Za privacy forces a
http 1.0 connection when it is active. Otherwise most modern browsers use
http 1.1 connections where this isn't a problem (unless you are behind some
other proxy which forces a 1.0 connection).
Nathan.
-----Original Message-----
From: macula@secure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 6:51 PM
To: Nathan Anderson; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Possible ZoneAlarm 3 Problem???
had the exact same problem. i was using ie6 and za 3 pro.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 3:01 AM
Subject: Possible ZoneAlarm 3 Problem???
>
> I was doing some surfing the web yesterday and one of the web sites
haven't
> been to for a while had some weird characters around the web site. At
first
> I assumed that they were doing some debugging since it appeared to be
random
> 4 digit codes in random places on the web site. Later in that same
session
> I had some problems viewing one of the theme demo pages on the same site;
so
> I disabled the Privacy system in ZA and notice that the web site worked
> properly without the codes. So I investigated it a little more and here
are
> the results of my tests:
>
> 1. I.E. 5.5 & Netscape 4.7x will both show the page with random 4 digit
> codes randomly through the page.
> 2. Netscape 6.2.1 won't show the page -- the view source for the page only
> shows "< html>< body>< /body>< /html>" (without the spaces)
> 3. Opera 6.01 refuses to do anything with the page.
>
> If I disable the Zone Alarms Privacy features (i.e. Click on the Browser
in
> Program Control->Programs and turn off Privacy) all the browsers work
> properly as then ZA is no longer filtering the connection.
>
> I filled out the form on ZA's website to report this and got back a nice
> canned response that had nothing to do with the problem I reported. So I
> replied and got another stupid response from them that again had very
little
> to do with the problem.
>
> So can someone confirm this problem:
>
> I'm using Windows 2000 fully patched.
> Zone Alarm 3.0.118 (Latest Version)
> The web site www.phpbb.com.
>
> Nathan.
