Re: [squid-users] Downloads hangs at 50% on a transparent proxy, SQUID 3

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:54:58 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Éliás Tamás wrote:

> I'm using Squid 3 in a chroot environment, I always compile from
> source. I have a Debian Sarge 2.6.11.5 with grsecurity and reiser4
> patches. And expected a strange behaviour of squid, used as a very
> simple transparent proxy, with almost no acls. Everything is ok,

Everything is not OK with Squid-3 development version. At this time there
is several known critical bugs, of which at least two causes data
corruption.

The current stable version for production use is Squid-2.5.STABLE9.

> but. whenever I use a download manager, eg.: getright or flashGet, any
> file I try to download, hangs at 50% not regarding to it's size (a
> 600megs file hangs at 300, a 2 megs file hangs at 1meg). Has anyone
> met such a strange behaviour?

"download managers" generally screw up things worse than anything else
seen in the world of HTTP. And this combined with using an unstable
development version of Squid may give some unexpected results..

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Mar 24 2005 - 18:55:00 MST

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