Re: Communications Exception (-336)

On Wednesday, January 19, 2000 8:42 +0000
Mark Foster <M.E.Foster@sussex.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>
> On Tuesday, January 18, 2000 15:59 +0000
> Mark Foster <M.E.Foster@sussex.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> When trying to connect to webmail.netscape.com via squid-2.3.STABLE1
>> I get a Netscape dialog box saying "Communications Exception (-336)".
>>
>> There are no errors in cache.log.
>> The entry in access.log is
>>
>> 948210491.902 RELEASE FFFFFFFF 200 948210493 -1 -1 text/html -1/1 659
>> GET http://webmail.netscape.com/tpl/Door/Login?
>>
>> Trying to access http://webmail.netscape.com/tpl/Door/Login? gives the
>> error.
>>
>> Turning OFF the proxy in the browser settings and connecting directly
>> works fine.
>>
>> This happens with browsers on PC, Macintosh and Unix so I can only
>> assume that the error lies with squid somewhere.
>>
>> Any help please?
>
> Further to this problem I have noticed that this problem only happens
> with Netscape browsers. Having installed and fired up a copy of IE
> it does not appear and I can connect to webmail.netscape.com ok.
>
> Next approach is to revert the development platform to 2.2.STABLE5
> and see if this problem is only in the 2.3 tree.

... I have just tried the above and can report that the problem does
seem to be in the 2.3 tree. Reverting to 2.2.STABLE5 I can connect
using both Netscape and IE browsers with no problems.

Is this a BUG?

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