Comments on: NewEgg Fail http://www.primedigit.com/2009/10/29/newegg-fail/ Thoughts on ASP.NET, Visual Design, SQL Server 2005, C# and much more... Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:12:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Bill http://www.primedigit.com/2009/10/29/newegg-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-1504 Bill Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:52:40 +0000 http://www.primedigit.com/?p=98#comment-1504 I'm guessing they've got a redirect to some DNS thats probably being blocked. Obviously it's completely on your end; don't know why poor Lilian had to be dragged into this. Have you tried redirecting through a public proxy? Fire up Fiddler and at will tell you exactly which request is timing out. Awesome tool I’m guessing they’ve got a redirect to some DNS thats probably being blocked. Obviously it’s completely on your end; don’t know why poor Lilian had to be dragged into this.

Have you tried redirecting through a public proxy?
Fire up Fiddler and at will tell you exactly which request is timing out. Awesome tool

]]> By: Will http://www.primedigit.com/2009/10/29/newegg-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-1502 Will Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:05:20 +0000 http://www.primedigit.com/?p=98#comment-1502 I may in fact have a 3G device that I've tethered at work before. But we don't talk about that. I may in fact have a 3G device that I’ve tethered at work before. But we don’t talk about that.

]]> By: Cory http://www.primedigit.com/2009/10/29/newegg-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-1501 Cory Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:02:36 +0000 http://www.primedigit.com/?p=98#comment-1501 Help desk people lose their sense of humor after two weeks on the job. My guess: it's probably a caching proxy between you and newegg. - Newegg could solve this by changing their web apps to not reuse URLs or file names. Caching proxy servers cause some web apps to "do crazy stuff". - Your network admin could fix this by seeing what newegg's code is doing, and changing their proxy's caching rules. - You could fix this by: tunneling through the caching proxy to a proxy that works (IT will hate you), get another net connection by tethering a 3G device to your workstation (IT will hate you), or just doing the work from home. Help desk people lose their sense of humor after two weeks on the job.

My guess: it’s probably a caching proxy between you and newegg.
- Newegg could solve this by changing their web apps to not reuse URLs or file names. Caching proxy servers cause some web apps to “do crazy stuff”.
- Your network admin could fix this by seeing what newegg’s code is doing, and changing their proxy’s caching rules.
- You could fix this by: tunneling through the caching proxy to a proxy that works (IT will hate you), get another net connection by tethering a 3G device to your workstation (IT will hate you), or just doing the work from home.

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