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Re: tortila as a bad exit



     On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:29:56 +0100 Robert Hogan <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>On Tuesday 12 August 2008 10:09:13 Drake Wilson wrote:
>> Quoth Scott Bennett <bennett@xxxxxxxxxx>, on 2008-08-11 23:30:20 -0500:
>> >      I'm not convinced.  It hasn't taken any 300 circuits for me.  It
>> > seems to happen every time I have a circuit that exits via tortila.  It
>> > happens with every destination web page.
>>
>> I can confirm this.  I can't seem to find much pattern to it, though.
>>
>
>I did a simple wget test (no privoxy) and found fairly consistent insertion=
>s of=20
>adsense spam to stevepavlima.com regardless of the site I targeted (google.=
>*,=20
>guardian.co.uk, irishtimes.com, cnn.com).
>
><script type=3D"text/javascript">var=20
>externalscript=3D"http://pagead2.googlesyndication.stevepavlima.com/show_ad=
>s.js";=20
>document.write('<script type=3D"text/javascript" src=3D"'+externalscript+'?=
>'+new=20
>Date() * 1+'"><\/script>');</script>
>
>I found that using a regular browser the corruption appears infrequent (cac=
>hing,=20
>browsers doing their best to make sense of gargabe), but the corruption is=
>=20
>consistent using wget. Where there was no insertion of stevepavlima.com (wh=
>ich=20
>was rare) I just saw simple truncation.
>
>Can anyone else confirm this?
>
     Now that you mention it, I did see stuff for stevepavlima.com some of
the time, but not consistently.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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