There's a certain website I visit repeatedly. Sometimes everything's okay, but from time to time I get the following error message while loading the page:
Fetching of original content failed with the following error: Proxy Publisher Failure TIMEOUT. If you own this domain, please consult this FAQ.
where "FAQ" is linked to http://code.google.com/speed/pss/faq.html#publisherfailure
At the same time, the URI rewrites 'itself' to http://domain.com/?ModPagespeed=noscript
I only encountered this issue on my Mac, but not on my windows machine. Why's that?
I'm using a direct connection – no proxy at all.
What is causing this issue? Is it a plugin in Firefox on my Mac? But why does it happen whith Chrome as well? Problem with my ISP? Or is it the server and a misconfigured apache module?
Best Answer
This sounds like a broken origin server, which is (intermittently) failing to return a response to the PageSpeed Service proxy. This shouldn't have to do anything with your browser or operating system - if you can prove otherwise, that would be really interesting...
Long story short: should ping the site owner to notify them that their server is intermittently failing.