[Privoxy-users] issue with gzip content-encoding and range queries

[Ian Silvester]

Hi Thorsten, 

To clarify, can I confirm that Privoxy is installed on a Debian box that
you are using as a proxy for all your local clients, correct? That is to
say you do not have Privoxy installed locally on the Android client that
is experiencing the issue? 

Secondly, could you detail the make, model and Android version affected. 

Thanks, 

Ian


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On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, at 03:05, Thorsten von Eicken wrote:
> I've been running into problems with streaming media files on android 
> devices. Specifically, seeking in mp3 files using range headers doesn't 
> work. Using a stock install of 3.0.25 on debian I see the following. I 
> bring up a page with some embedded audio player (for a podcast). I can 
> play, but if I seek I get a very short sound burst and then the player 
> jumps to the end. Disabling privoxy doesn't help. Going straight to the 
> server (i.e. no proxy at all) works great too. Using desktop chrome 
> works fine with privoxy.
> 
> I ran some tcpdumps and see that the requests have Accept-Encoding:gzip 
> and the response has Content-Encoding: gzip
> and Transfer-Encoding: chunked. When I seek in the audio the device uses 
> range requests, for example, Range: bytes=9854244-.  I then added a rule 
> to privoxy to drop the Accept-Encoding header 
> (+crunch-client-header{Accept-Encoding}) and with that it all works 
> great. I have had the same issue on other sites, so it's not a site 
> specific problem.
> 
> Does this problem description ring a bell?
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> - install privoxy 3.0.25 beta from source on debian, stock config file 
> (except I had to change the listening port)
> - grab an android device with chome
> - navigate to http://www.unlearnandrewild.org/listen/
> - play the first podcast and a second or two after it starts seek 
> forward by pressing into the bar
> - the player will briefly display the time you seeked to and then jump 
> to the end of the podcast
> 
> Sample request/response header:
> GET 
> http://deepgreens.org/UnlearnAndRewild/UnlearnAndRewildLo-Fi/UnlearnAndRewild-035-RobinWallKimmerer-Lo.mp3 
> HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: stagefright/1.2 (Linux;Android 5.1.1)
> allow-cross-domain-redirect: false
> Range: bytes=9854244-
> Host: deepgreens.org
> Connection: Keep-Alive
> Accept-Encoding: gzip
> 
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 06:30:42 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.4.12
> Last-Modified: Fri, 13 May 2016 21:48:31 GMT
> ETag: "8ea08b6-197bfc3-532c03c60451b-gzip"
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
> Content-Encoding: gzip
> Connection: Keep-Alive
> Transfer-Encoding: chunked
> Content-Type: audio/mpeg
> Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
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