[ ijbswa-Support Requests-1192077 ] trouble with non-standard http port(s)

Support Requests item #1192077, was opened at 2005-04-29 02:00
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by oes
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Category: configuration
Group: 3.0.x
>Status: Closed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: csights (papeye)
Assigned to: Andreas Oesterhelt (oes)
Summary: trouble with non-standard http port(s)

Initial Comment:
privoxy 3.0.3, win2000 & linux, firefox 1.0.3

Hi, thank you for the nice filtering proxy.

I have trouble browsing web interfaces to cvs when they
are on non-standard ports.  E.g.

https://cvs.cis.upenn.edu:3690/svnroot/unison-contributed-binaries/windows/

    With privoxy enabled or disabled Firefox gives me a
completely blank page and IE gives a "HTTP Error 403 -
Forbidden" page.
    If I bypass privoxy by changing the connection
settings in either browser to have a direct connection
to the internet the page loads correctly.
    It appears as though privoxy doesn't handle the
non-standard port correctly?

Thanks!

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>Comment By: Andreas Oesterhelt (oes)
Date: 2005-04-29 19:13

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=78811

Won't work, since the browser wants to establish
an encrypted connection afterwards, and won't read
lest display any document we could send.

We go as far as we can and send a non-standard 
HTTP-Header: "X-Hint: If you read this message
interactively, then you know why this happens ,-)"

IE also seems to be ignoring our HTTP message text - 
what we send is : "403 Connection not allowable"
which should also hint at the problem being a policy
issue.

Cheers,
-A


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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2005-04-29 14:44

Message:
Logged In: NO 

Thank you very much for the info!  It might be helpful for
privoxy to display an informative error message instead of a
blank page?

C.

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Comment By: Andreas Oesterhelt (oes)
Date: 2005-04-29 02:42

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=78811

No, it's just that all https ports besides 443 are
forbidden by default, to prevent TCP relaying
through Privoxy for spam and security considerations.

To allow the ports you need, you can use the
limit-connect action. It can be configured through
http://p.p/ and is documented here:

http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/actions-file.html#LIMIT-CONNECT


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