on 10-03-2011 17:31
After spending 5 days trying to get answers out of the technical team and several hours on the phone trying to find out why no Virgin media customers can no longer get access to www.uploading.com, they have finally admitted they for some reason they are blocking this site.
Ive no idea why after all these years they decided on friday night to block the site but they have.
Access is available via any other Isp, 3G but not VM so what they are saying is go and find yourself another ISP.
Goodbye Virgin
on 10-03-2011 17:42
on 10-03-2011 17:45
Bloke on customers services said they are blocking it.
i did a trace at the request of the uploading help team and they said it was a virgin issue
on 10-03-2011 17:47
yes your correct. the error commign form data in teh vm webcache.
So how can they ecplain this when they do not use transparence proxys...
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.uploading.com
Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.127 Safari/534.16
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
HTTP/1.1 502 internal error - server connection terminated
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:44:21 GMT
Via: HTTP/1.1 webcache1-know.server.virginmedia.net (Traffic-Server/5.7.0-59705 [cMsEf ])
Cache-Control: no-store
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Language: en
Content-Length: 261
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Could Not Connect</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="white" FGCOLOR="black"><H1>Could Not Connect</H1><HR>
<FONT FACE="Helvetica,Arial"><B>Description: Could not connect to the server "<EM>www.uploading.com</EM>".</B></FONT><HR></BODY>GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1
Host: www.uploading.com
Connection: keep-alive
Accept: */*
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.127 Safari/534.16
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
on 10-03-2011 18:02
I wont pretend to know what any of this means but thanks for looking into it.
they would not give me a reason and yet similar sites like megaupload are fine on vm
on 10-03-2011 18:31
Yeah, i've been having the same problems recently, extremely frustrating and i don't have the technical expertise to start messing with proxies.
on 10-03-2011 20:18
proxies dont work with uploading.com as you have to have cookies enabled and proxies dont. VM tried to fob me off with that as well. they are useless
on 10-03-2011 20:42
They are transparently proxying it so that as far as uploading.com is concerned, EVERYONE using VM appears to have the same ip address.
The net result is that traffic to and from the file sharing site is severely curtailed and VM save a ton of bandwidth, and are able to log everything that does get downloaded if they wanted to.
They are probably doing it for other sites as well.
In this case, uploading.com have probably noticed what's going on, and blocked the transparent proxy's address, so you can't connect at all.
http://tools.virginmedia.com/cgi-bin/HTTP.pl?www.u
on 10-03-2011 23:40
hi chris what is this link? doesnt seem to go anywhere
thanks
on 11-03-2011 00:15