[X] My Assistant

I see a few thread on this but they're often light on information from the people asking... here's a (hopefully) better description:

Just started with the H@H programme. H@H is up and running fine and serving requests from people (uptime 48 minutes and counting).

I can view thumbnails. I can't view the pictures in galleries, however. I just see a link with the name of the image.

I do have my H@H Proxy set in my settings to 127.0.0.1:17171 (where 17171 is the port H@H is running on).

If I remove that setting, I can browse just fine. However, I'd like to use the H@H Proxy.

I'm using Firefox 3.x with Adblock set to whitelist and NoScript allowing EHT. These settings are the same as when it works (without the Proxy) as when it doesn't. I figure that the proxy setting is the problem.

I've experimented by setting my H@H Local Network Host Address to 192.168.1.20 (my current computer, behind a NAT router). No joy (though do I need to restart the proxy for that to work?)...

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance.

Edit - The "Click here if the image is not loading, or is corrupted" link doesn't help either, giving me a no further useful information.

This post has been edited by Svenski: Oct 19 2009, 03:01

Are you sure the parameter named "Client Proxy Mode" is set to "Local Network Only" in your proxy configuration web page ?

Also, you may find some log files (log_out and log_err) in the data directory of your proxy that you can read to find out why your proxy requests (from your browser to your proxy) don't work.

You can try pointing your browser to [192.168.1.20] http://192.168.1.20:17171/ (or 127.0.0.1) and see what it says. If it gives any reply at all (normally a 404), you know that part of the connection is good. As long as it gets through to the client, you can look though the client logs for a more detailed explanation of what went wrong.

Edit: Btw, the "local host address" thingie isn't used at all when you're operating in Proxy Mode. It's only used if you're not operating as Proxy, and the dispatcher looks up a H@H client that has the same public IP address as the originating image request. Some routers (mine for one) don't handle that properly.

Thanks for the replies. I can confirm that my server's Client Proxy Mode is correctly set to "Local Network Only".

You can try pointing your browser to [192.168.1.20] http://192.168.1.20:17171/ (or 127.0.0.1) and see what it says. If it gives any reply at all (normally a 404), you know that part of the connection is good. As long as it gets through to the client, you can look though the client logs for a more detailed explanation of what went wrong.

Okay. Tried that. I do indeed get a 404 as you describe, both for the loopback IP and for my actual local IP.

So I set my H@H Proxy to 192.168.1.20:17171 and tried browsing. Again, when I load a page I get only the name of the file as a hyperlink. I see in my logs, for at least one attempt, the following:

2009-10-19T21:43:37Z [info] {connId=18, rhost=/192.168.1.20} : GET / HTTP/1.1
2009-10-19T21:43:37Z [WARN] {connId=18, rhost=/192.168.1.20} : The requested URL is invalid or not supported.
2009-10-19T21:43:37Z [info] {connId=18, rhost=/192.168.1.20} : The remote host made an invalid request that could not be serviced.
2009-10-19T21:43:37Z [info] {connId=18, rhost=/192.168.1.20} : Writing httpResponse for GET: code=404 bytes=0

I also get a pair of lines following that indicating a failure to download favicon.ico as well.

This was, for example, trying to view https://e-hentai.org/s/e28bc8e70605b2df0e...0-jpg/166055-21 which works when I don't set the proxy.

Looking at it, it almost seems as though the address part of the request is being stripped and replaced by a plain request to / (i.e. the root directory) but I don't appear to have any way to affect that.

Any suggestions?

The only way I got the H@H proxy to work was to put the IP that is assigned to my router from my ISP and the port number into the box in the 'my settings' page. Instead of using the loopback IP or H@H box's IP.

For me its 64.203.41.xxx:49180. I'm just hiding the xxx for security reasons.

After that I needed to make sure port forwarding was correctly set on my router.

My local H@H box has an address of 192.168.0.114 and my router's local IP is 192.168.0.1.

So on the router's port settings page I had port 49180 forwarded to 192.168.0.114.

After I did all that it worked.

here's a snip of a log from the H@H output window

2009-10-19T23:25:08Z [info] {connId=18812, rhost=/192.168.0.1} : GET /r/aaff48c084b103316542091f2097ef364eb2c3a2-102757-567-772-jpg/490370-4d59fec76b45551115b8dabda542b79e06ad3d2d/166079-8/Ayane_comedy_special_07.jpg HTTP/1.1
2009-10-19T23:25:08Z [info] {connId=18812, rhost=/192.168.0.1} : Initializing proxy request...
2009-10-19T23:25:08Z [info] Gallery File Download Request initializing for aaff48c084b103316542091f2097ef364eb2c3a2-102757-567-772-jpg...
2009-10-19T23:25:08Z [info] {connId=18812, rhost=/192.168.0.1} : Writing httpResponse for GET: code=200 bytes=102757

The only way I got the H@H proxy to work was to put the IP that is assigned to my router from my ISP and the port number into the box in the 'my settings' page.

Interesting thought. That changes the response for me but doesn't actually resolve it for me.

Now I get a lag between the request and the failure as if it is trying, and I also get a more useful failure response in my logs:

2009-10-19T23:54:43Z [info] {connId=599, rhost=/192.168.1.20} : The connection was interrupted or closed by the remote host.

Smells like I'm closer, certainly... not there yet.

By the by, I've tried disabling Adblock and Windows Firewall completely. No apparent effect in either case.

Thanks for the help so far!

This post has been edited by Svenski: Oct 20 2009, 01:59

Right. I have a solution that works for me. Hurrah!

I run NoScript for Firefox 3. I'm allowing all the scripts that EHT runs (seems only fair) and that wasn't helping. On a whim, I tried setting my H@H Proxy in IE8 and that worked... which meant it was Firefox. I disabled NoScript and magically it worked. But I want NoScript running generally and even the "Allow scripts Globally (dangerous)" setting didn't help this to work. So I turned settings off one by one in NoScript.

The problem is ABE (Applications Boundary Enforcer).

NoScript Options | Advanced | ABE | Enable ABE (Applications Boundary Enforcer)

Ensure that option is disabled and magically it all works.

More specifically, it's the SYSTEM ruleset that is blocking local traffic (Site LOCAL | Accept from LOCAL | Deny), so you could just disable that if you're already using ABE for more complex rules and you need to keep it enabled.

Now... anyone any ideas how to write a ruleset that has H@H Proxy as an exception?

I also can not load larger images. I have checked my sys. I do not have noscript, I do not run peer blocker or PG2, I do not run adblock. my H@H proxy is blank and has always been. this is the first time I have logged on in the past few weeks but before I logged on I tried to view a few larger pics, no joy. I am using the fire fox.


Any help you can give??? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)