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Meteor Proxying?

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  • 31-01-2012 2:44pm
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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭


    Is Meteor proxying their mobile data I wonder? I'm having trouble accessing a couple of web services but I don't see any proxy under the data APN.


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    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    They could be even without you entering one into the settings if they have a transparent proxy set up. What problems are you having?


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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Yeah I know, was hoping there'd be a way around it. If I set up a squid server on one of my own machines, will that pass through the transparent proxy? Proxying ain't my strong point.

    Can't provide the URLs as these are private/commercial web services, but one is reloading in a loop, off and on, and the other is looping back to a login. Looks like they're not handling cookies correctly.


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    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    I don't think a squid server will do anything, any requests your device sends would go through the proxy before they went on to the internet

    Btw, not only can I confirm that meteor uses a proxy, I can tell you what type. It's this: http://www.bluecoat.com/products/proxysg

    I went here on my phone and it showed an X-bluecoat-via header which is put there by ProxySG: http://www.ericgiguere.com/tools/http-header-viewer.html


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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Thanks. I'll file a complaint, although I don't imagine it'll achieve much.


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    ozymandius
    Registered Users Posts: 202 ✭✭ozymandius


    Caused me loads of issues a couple of years ago. Various apps would stop working for a while, while they fiddled, and then just start working again. Google maps, a twitter client. This was on PalmOS - so imagine the fun I had on the phone to them. Gave up.


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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Sent them an email, no response of course. I couldn't handle trying to deal with this on the phone unless I actually got someone technical. I'll have to leave if they can't fix it.

    What kind of moron puts a broken transparent proxy in front of an entire network of users? Is there /any/ QA in the mobile operators?


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    ozymandius
    Registered Users Posts: 202 ✭✭ozymandius


    I recall now that one suggestion was that it was a NAT machine causing trouble, not simply a transparent proxy. If it's a proxy, could you use SSL, or tunnel through SSH?

    For reference - my old thread -
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=57378684


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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    The web services are on SSL, come to think of it. Hmmm.


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