Patch for Yahoo Messenger problems w/ HTTP proxy

John Bailey rekkanoryo at rekkanoryo.org
Sun Feb 10 21:55:50 EST 2008


Gideon N. Guillen wrote:
 > Some web servers don't like passing the whole URL to your HTTP request (GET,
> POST, HEAD, etc) because some might be configured to deny requests 
> constructed in that format. That format used on web servers usually is a "red 
> flag" that someone is attempting to use you web server as an open proxy 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_proxy).

But that doesn't have an effect on changing the behavior of the Yahoo plugin
only, from the looks of it.

John

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