Re: [squid-users] squid not parsing URLs

One basic problem is the news_id. It doesn't conform to the site's normal
construct. Where did the "3D" come from? If that is dropped, you will be
able to retrieve the comments about the Solaris 10 article.

Merton Campbell Crockett

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Rolf wrote:

> hello
>
> I have a new install of squid and I have done very little customisation of the
> config (just things like the cache directory, cache_peer and acls). Most of
> those settings were copied from an old (2.5) squid install that worked
> perfectly.
>
> I am having troubles with this box with lots of different sorts of urls
>
> but the most common type is where a url contains a question mark prior
> to some further part of the url
>
> What happens is that squid comes back and says 'connection refused'
> quoting the url only up to the question mark.
>
> An example. If I go to this site http://www.osnews.com it loads fine,
> then I click on this link
> /http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=3D8343
>
> squid returns:
>
> While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?
>
> The following error was encountered:
> Connection Failed
>
> The system returned:
> (111) Connection refused
>
> The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.
>
> In access.log it shows
> TCP_MISS/503 1504 GET http://www.osnews.com/comment.php? - NONE/- text/html
>
> If I sniff the conversation the relevant http packet begins with "503 service
> unavailable"
>
> I can't work out why this is so and what if any config in particular I need to
> have.
> Any help gratefully appreciated.
>
> Using squid 2.5stable6 on debian.
>
> Thanks
>
> rolf.
>
>

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