Re: get "Operation already in progress" when trying to use squid with socks

From: Oskar Pearson <oskar@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:15:26 +0200

Hi

> since my squid lies inside our firewall, I have to configure the
> proxy-server running on the firewall as my parent. This works
> great so far. But for being able to forward https connections as
> well, I tried to socksify squid using socks5. However, when connecting

> ERROR
>
> The requested URL could not be retrieved
>
>
> While trying to retrieve the URL: banking.hypo.de:443
>
> The following error was encountered:
>
> Connection Failed
>
> The system returned:
>
> (37) Operation already in progress
>
> This means that:
>
> The remote site or server may be down. Please try again soon.
>
>
>
> The socks5 package itself runs great but with squid I had no succes.
> I socksified squid using the usual procedure: including socks.h,
> defining SOCKS and linking with the socks5 library.
>
> Do you have an idea or any hint what I might be doing wrong?
hmm - this error message means that your server is trying to connect
directly to the remote server (ie not via socks). There is probably something
wrong with the https source in squid so that it can't talk socks.

Oskar
Received on Thu Aug 07 1997 - 02:17:47 MDT

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