Problem with AOL and HTTP

PingPing · 2009-09-15 23:10:09

I'm at my in-laws and their ISP is AOL.
I find I cannot use any web browser other than AOL's own web browser. If I try to use something else, it just hangs.
I've done some amateur sleuthing and I'm pretty sure AOL is somehow blocking HTTP requests from anything other than the AOL browser.
To get around this, I can use Firefox if I ssh-tunnel it through my remotely located server at home. However, that's just Firefox.
I'm trying to build the Google Chromium browser from AUR but when I makepkg it hangs at:

[n00b@aspireone chromium-snapshot]$ makepkg -s
==> Making package: chromium-snapshot 26260-1 i686 (Wed Sep 16 00:05:58 BST 2009)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Downloading chrome-linux.zip...
--2009-09-16 00:05:59--  http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-linux/26260/chrome-linux.zip
Resolving build.chromium.org... 74.125.77.101, 74.125.77.102, 74.125.77.113, ...
Connecting to build.chromium.org|74.125.77.101|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...

Is there any way I can get around the AOL HTTP block?

cactus · 2009-09-16 05:49:49

maybe use ssh to create a socks proxy, and have curl use that socks proxy result to fetch things (change the downloader in pacman.conf to curl --socks5 or something. I believe wget can use a socks, or you could try using tsocks to wrap it maybe.

ssh you@yourserver.host.blah -D 8080

should setup a local/loopback socks proxy on port 8080.
A google search might show you a step by step, but alot of it depends on your environment.

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#1 2009-09-15 23:10:09

Problem with AOL and HTTP

#2 2009-09-16 05:49:49

Re: Problem with AOL and HTTP

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