"Gerhard Kirchmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since I use SuSE 7.3 I'm not able to use WWWOFFLE 2.6d (from SuSE rpms) > with Netscape 4.78. When I set the preferences to 'Manual Proxy > Configuration' with HTTP Proxy: localhost PORT: 8080, Netscape refuses > to interact with WWWOFFLE. The URL http://localhost:8080/ returns > the following error: > > A network error occured while Netscape was receiving data. (Network > Error: Connection reset by peer). > Debugging information from wwwoffled is: > > wwwoffled[5313] Warning: HTTP Proxy connection rejected from host > ::ffff:127.0.0.1 (::ffff:127.0.0.1).
This seems to be a problem that is being reported to me a lot recently and I think that the common factor here is SuSe version 7.3. I use WWWOFFLE on Debian and I have never had a problem with the IPv6 code like users of SuSe are seeing. For some reason connections from localhost (127.0.0.1) are appearing to come from ::ffff:127.0.0.1 which is the IPv6 name for the IPv4 address 127.0.0.1. The Debian /etc/hosts file looks like this: -------------------- /etc/hosts -------------------- # IPv4 addresses 127.0.0.1 localhost # IPv6 addresses ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts -------------------- /etc/hosts -------------------- The connections from browsers to localhost are reported by WWWOFFLE to be "HTTP Proxy connection from host localhost (::ffff:127.0.0.1).", the difference is that the lookup from ::ffff:127.0.0.1 to localhost has worked here and localhost is allowed to connect. One answer to this problem is to add "::ffff:127.0.0.1" to the LocalHost section of the WWWOFFLE configuration file. Another answer is to ask SuSe what is happening. The other answer is to recompile WWWOFFLE without IPv6 support. > The strange thing is, that with Mozilla 0.9.4, galeon and lynx there are > no problems, whereas Opera refuses to work. > > debugging information from the call of URL http://localhost:8080/ within > Mozilla (which works) is: > > wwwoffled[5313] Information: HTTP Proxy connection from host localhost (::1). The difference here is that Mozilla seems to be IPv6 aware and is using an IPv6 address for localhost. Lynx and Galeon are also IPv6 aware and will not have the problem that Netscape and Opera have. > But the biggest problem is, that I can't run htdig. A call to > /var/spool/wwwoffle/html/search/htdig/scripts/wwwoffle-htdig-full > returns the following error messages: > > New server: localhost, 8080 > 0:0:0:http://localhost:8080/search/start4.html: not found > htmerge: Sorting... > htmerge: Removing doc #0 > DB2 problem...: missing or empty key value specified > > Deleted, no excerpt: 0/http://localhost:8080/search/start4.html > > Debugging information in this case are 2 connection rejected cases like > the Netscape error. > > wwwoffled[5313] Warning: HTTP Proxy connection rejected from host >::ffff:127.0.0.1 (::ffff:127.0.0.1). > wwwoffled[5313] Warning: HTTP Proxy connection rejected from host >::ffff:127.0.0.1 (::ffff:127.0.0.1). This is the same problem as for Netscape and has the same solution. -- Andrew. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/ WWWOFFLE users page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.6/user.html
