on Mon, May 27, 2002, dman (dman@dman.ddts.net) wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 04:30:04PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> | on Mon, May 27, 2002, dman (dman@dman.ddts.net) wrote:
> | >
> | > Having recently learned of adzap and pyredir, I'm trying to convince
> | > galeon to use squid to proxy all requests. As a first step I started
> | > squid on port 3128 (debian default) and configured mozilla to use it
> | > as a proxy. It worked correctly. I then tried configuring galeon to
> | > use a proxy. It seems that it is ignoring the proxy settings because
> | > nothing looks different (even sites that mozilla saw as ad-zapped). I
> | > then added an iptables rule to transparently redirect outgoing HTTP
> | > requests to squid. Now I get back an error page from squid saying
> | > that the URL is malformed (it doesn't inlude the protocol or the
> | > server portions of it).
> | >
> | > It this PEBKAC or is this a bunch of bugs in galeon?
> |
> | How are you specifying the proxy?
>
> Through the GUI (Settings->Preferences , Advanced , Network ).
I think I meant to write "what proxy values (host/port) have you
specified?".
> | Post the results of:
> |
> | $ grep proxy .galeon/mozilla/galeon/pref.js
>
> user_pref("network.proxy.http", "localhost");
> user_pref("network.proxy.http_port", 3128);
> user_pref("network.proxy.type", 1);
Looks reasonable.
> | ...and have you flushed your cache?
>
> That was probably the problem. I had restarted galeon, but that
> didn't seem to have an effect. I've now set galeon's disk cache to 0
> since squid will take care of it.
Yep. Bugs in earlier Galeon versions required a nonzero cache size. I
think I was using something like 4M at one point, the smallest I could
specify.
Peace.
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