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isomorphismes
Asked: 2014-03-28 00:55:40 +0800 CST

How do I resolve webpage encoding issues when using a proxy?

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Unless I disable proxy, webpages show up as characters like

|ˆSš˜mð{ýîsqÐ|0MVà|ð|}}}0}@}P}`}p}€}P} }°}À}Ð}à}ð}~~ ~0~@~P~`~p~€~P~ ~°~À~Ð~à~€€ €0€@€P€`€p€€€P€ €°€À€Ð€à€ð€AA A0A@APA`ApA€APA A°AÀAÐAàAðA‚‚

or else as a .bin file available for download. For example https://dpaste.de/epVx is what http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2014/03/ex-growth.html looks like if I go through the system proxy.

If I use w3m through an ssh connection then webpages display fine. TTYtter works fine. vlc can even play the same youtube video at the same time as firefox can't load the site. I infer from this that those programs must use proxies differently.

Once I change the proxy from "system default" to "none" this problem goes away in Firefox. Aliasing w3m to w3m -no-proxy works for naked w3m but not in wrappers like surfraw. However, curl and by extension R still can't fetch data—and even sudo apt-get install is having problems.

I'm not even sure where the system default proxy settings are coming from. If I try to google about it I end up being directed to squid -- which I'm not sure is what I want.

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  1. Best Answer

    The problem was that I had installed anon-proxy but not configured it. anon-proxy uses 127.0.0.1:4001. So either configure it or kill it.

    • How to configure anon-proxy.
    • To kill it use sudo su; netstat -tlp to find the process number of mix (it's called an anonymous mix for some reason) and then from su issue kill -9 to the process id number.
    • If killing doesn't work, then don't just sudo apt-get remove anon-proxy; also sudo apt-get purge anon-proxy; this will unset shell variables like $HTTP_PROXY and some files in /etc/ or /var/ that it may have changed.
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