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Subject: RE: SOCKS/HTTP filtering
From: Gene Lee <genel @ inforamp . net>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 02:42:32 -0500
To: "'firewalls @ greatcircle . com'" <firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM>, "'Michael Werneburg'" <MWernebu @ trimark . com>

On Sunday, January 12, 1997 3:29 PM, Michael Werneburg[SMTP:MWernebu @
 trimark .
 com] wrote:
>Our webserver sits behind a firewall which is configured to allow only
>incoming http/https and things like mail and news (obviously not
>intended for our web servers).  Everything appears to be working,
>except:
>
>A user of our web site is using desktop browser behind a SOCKS gateway.
>Upon every attempt to submit a form via POST, he gets a bizarre message
>which reads "Your browser sent a non-HTTP compliant message."
>
>I suspect that his SOCKS gateway is attempting some filtering, and
>decided that it didn't like the outgoing message.  Does anyone have any
>experience with a problem resembling this?

Need more info. What kind of SOCKS server is he using? What kind of client is he using?


--
Gene Lee
genel @
 inforamp .
 net
genelee @
 vnet .
 ibm .
 com


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