Re: [squid-users] Weird problem with IE on W2K

First thing to try is to disable client side persistent connections

client_persistent_connections off

Does this make the problem better or worse?

Then, look thru the IE advanced options. Maybe it has an "Use HTTP/1.1
thru proxies" option like earlier versions (never fully understood what
this option actually does or why it is there, but some people say it
make a difference).

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Hacker

Oliver Jones wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm setting up a Linux box (Redhat 7.1) to be a firewall and I've
> configured squid (squid-2.3.STABLE4-10.7.1) to proxy web requests.
> However I'm having a problem with IE. I've configured IE to use the
> proxy (just specifing the cache specifically in the internet options, no
> autoconf yet) and it is making requests to it. Everything seems to
> work. Most of the time.
>
> The problems I'm having appear at random. What happens is that using IE
> 5.5 I request a page and not all of the page gets downloaded. Usually
> what happens is that some (or all) images are missing. Eg, I request
> www.gamespot.com and the banner advert isn't downloaded nor are some of
> the icons. Or I request www.mysql.com and the stylesheet and images are
> not fetched. If I right click where the images should be and select
> "Show Picture" the image is instantly downloaded (via the proxy) and
> appears.
>
> I've been playing around with the debug logging options ins squid.conf
> and it appears when the original request was made the images were never
> even requested for download. So I assume that either the communication
> between IE and squid is bad during the request phase or somehow squid
> 'forgot' to fetch the items. I think the prior is most likely as so far
> I've not been able to replicate the problem with Mozilla on Win32 or
> Linux. Only IE 5.5 on Win2k. I've seen this problem before too. On
> another Linux proxy machine (RedHat 5.2) with Win2k clients (IE 5.5)
> images are not always retrieved when viewing pages.
>
> What on earth could be the problem?? It is really starting to bug me
> and I don't really know how to go about discovering what could be the cause.
>
> Any help in nailing down a reasonable solution would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
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> Oliver Jones - oliver@deeper.co.nz - Mobile: +64-21-41-2238
> - Deeper Design Limited - http://www.deeperdesign.com
Received on Wed Oct 17 2001 - 05:16:14 MDT