From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2007-03-02T19:00:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't login to Rubyforge, just says "cookies must be enabled"

On 02/03/07, Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/03/07, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:58:24AM +0900, Samantha wrote:
> > > I emailed with him a few times offlist... He's in Gentoo in the GNOME
> > > Environment.  I thought of permission issues, so suggested that he run
> > > firefox as root, but looks like he tried it and it didn't work.
> > >
> > > It definitely sounds like a system or network issue, though.
> > >
> > > Maybe something funky in the .mozilla folder underneath the
> > > /home/username directory.
> >
> > He reported trying to connect via the links browser, which also did not
> > work.  As such, it seems unlikely that it has anything to do with the
> > operation of any of his browser applications.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if all the Mozilla browsers like Seamonkey, Epiphany, and
> > > Firefox use that directory or not.
> >
> > --
> > CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
> > "A script is what you give the actors.  A program
> > is what you give the audience." - Larry Wall
> >
> >
>
> I posted a request on a local OSS mailing list (I'm in South Africa by
> the way) asking if anyone is having the same issues and I got a reply
> from a person having the same issue. I'm not sure if our beloved
> Telkom (worst telco in the world) is doing something wonky with SSL
> packets (they have a penchant for traffic shaping) but that doesn't
> explain why other sites usin SSL works fine or why I am able to log in
> at work (which is a large SA corporation).
>
> Farrel

I'm beginning to suspect that this is being caused by Telkom's
transparent proxy that most SA HTTP internet traffic goes through.
From the local OSS mailing list it seems it has caused issues before
because it gets blacklisted by sites.

Farrel