Re: hotmail and zero reply length

From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:50:54 +0300

just try a unpatched stable4! you will see that it will start to work...
I have had the same problem

Chris Dent wrote:

> I'm a newbie so I feel like this must have been covered before,
> but I checked the list archives and didn't find anything
> conclusive. Thanks for any help on this that you can provide.
>
> I'm using a transparent proxy squid with a serveriron on a
> terminal server segment and experiencing problems with hotmail
> that I'm having trouble figuring out.
>
> Users, when using hotmail to reply to messages, sometimes get
> ERR_ZERO_SIZED_OBJECT and I can't seem to work around it.
>
> Based on some sniffing around it literally is that hotmail is not
> returning any data at all.
>
> A machine that doesn't go through the cache, doing the same thing
> on hotmail, at the same time (within seconds, but not _exactly_
> at the same time), experiences no difficulties.
>
> I already have hotmail.com and hotmail.msn.com in a no_cache
> list, but it is apparently not caching that is causing the
> problem, but the proxying. Making the SI not force redirection on
> the various hotmail sites could prove difficult...
>
> Any suggestions on things I can diddle to deal with this?
>
> this is squid2.2.STABLE4 with the squid-2.2.stable4.webdav_support.patch
> on redhat 5.2, linux 2.2.9
>
> The no comments no whitespace version of my config is below. The
> request_size is set that large because I had thought perhaps the
> initial reports of problems with POSTs were the size limit.
> Further access and redirection controls are done in the ipchains
> setup on the box. (I suspect my http_access controls are
> buggered, if they are please let me know, thanks).
>
> http_port 80 3128
> acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \? cfm
> no_cache deny QUERY
> acl behave_badly url_regex "/usr/local/lib/squid/no_cache"
> no_cache deny behave_badly
> acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
> http_access allow all
> cache_mem 128 MB
> cache_dir /var/spool/cache 3000 16 256
> debug_options ALL,1
> request_size 5000 KB
> pconn_timeout 300 seconds
> acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
> acl manager proto cache_object
> acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
> acl SSL_ports port 443 563
> acl Safe_ports port 80 21 443 563 70 210 1025-65535
> acl CONNECT method CONNECT
> http_access allow manager localhost
> http_access deny manager
> http_access deny !Safe_ports
> http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
> http_access allow localhost
> http_access deny all
> icp_access allow all
> miss_access allow all
> cache_effective_user squid
> cache_effective_group squid
> httpd_accel_host virtual
> httpd_accel_port 80
> httpd_accel_with_proxy on
> httpd_accel_uses_host_header on
> logfile_rotate 0
> icon_directory /usr/lib/squid/icons
> error_directory /etc/squid/errors
> uri_whitespace allow
>
> --
> Chris Dent.Coppertop Patriarchies create children.
> .....Kiva Networking
Received on Fri Jul 16 1999 - 07:38:22 MDT

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