Re: Automated Home Login Problems

["Tim Hawes" <timsyahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Rob, I'm with BT... :-/
Did they ever fix it for you, or did you change ISP?

Thanks, I'll investigate further.

Cheers,

Tim.

On 11/8/07, Rob Iles <rob.iles@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tim,
>
> Does your (home) ISP implement a transparent proxy? I've had issues
with BT
> in the past, one of the boxes in their transparent HTTP Cache/Proxy
farm
> went wonky, and caused very bizarre issues with vBulletin (and some
other
> forums).
>
> If possible, temporarily specify a Proxy server in IE/Firefox on a
port
> other than 80 - - - google for IP's - there's are a number that run on
> TCP8080 etc.
>
> This might help, it did the job for me in the past. It may be
completely
> irrelevant - so if any has other ideas, please  shout out :)
>
> Rob
>
>
> On 08/11/2007, Tim Hawes <timsyahoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >   I'm having trouble logging into the Automated Home forums from
home.
> > All is fine from work though. A-H uses vBulletin, as does AV
Forums,
> > and I have no trouble at AVF...
> >
> > When I try to log in to A-H I get the redirect screen but I don't
> > appear to be logged in after that page disappears. It's the same
for
> > both IE and Firefox, although I'm on IE 7 at home & 6 at
work. I also
> > can't see the forum sponsor icons in either browser.
> >
> > Does anyone know what could be wrong? Since it's common to both
IE &
> > Firefox I think it's maybe pointing to a firewall-type issue (?)
> > rather than a browser problem but I'm happy to be proved wrong.
I'm
> > using Norton Internet Security 2006 as the software firewall.
I've
> > tried completely disabling this but the problems persist.
> >
> > Any thoughts? help!!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tim.
> > p.s. I notice as the A-H pages finish loading that kontera.com is
> > referenced in the bar at the bottom of the screen. Whois refers
to
> > networksolutions.com or similar. Is this kosher or are my details
> > being hived-off somewhere else?