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Richard Dallaway  
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 More options 21 Aug 2008, 18:15
From: Richard Dallaway <dalla...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:15:13 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs 21 Aug 2008 18:15
Subject: Re: problem: always points to Google
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On 20 Aug, 23:24, techstreamcomput...@gmail.com wrote:

> Sloppy seemed to work fine when trying a couple of sites within a few
> minutes of first run.  However, after once testing google.com on 56k,
> sloppy now always sends me to google.com no matter what I enter in the
> site address field.

Sloppy doesn't work as a proper proxy (by which I mean sitting between
all the interactions between your web browser and the internet), which
means that if the web server redirects you to another site, Sloppy is
cut out of the loop.  I wonder if this is what's happening for you...

I've done some experimentation, and I find if I enter the address
google.com into Sloppy, I briefly see http://127.0.0.1:7596 and then
the page is refreshed with http://www.google.co.uk (presumably because
I'm in the UK).  If I then modify the URL in sloppy to be http://google.co.uk
the same thing happens. But if I change it to be exactly http://www.google.co.uk/
(including the end /) then it stays with Sloppy and I can search and
see slow results coming back.

I tried it with Yahoo.com too, and I get similar results. Except I
need to be even more specific and enter http://uk.yahoo.com/?p=us --
but the exact value may vary for you depending on where you are.

Does that help at all?

Cheers
Richard


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