[Gllug] how to check for a transparent proxy

[Mark Lowes]

On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 03:42, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> I am told by my connectivity provider that port 80 traffic is not 
> filtered or cached.  I pay for a clean business connection and I would 
> expect it not to be cached / cached.
> 
> If I browse to amazon.com or amazon.co.uk all of the links to the images 
> are broken.  For a long time I thought it was amazon.

telnet <IP you know isn't running anything on port 80> 80

if you get connection refused then there's no proxy, if you get a
session then you're hitting a proxy.

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