Re: [squid-users] Windows update hangs

Hi Lasse

It could be related to the problem I'm having, depending on how your proxy
it set up. I'm trying to build a box to manage the Quarantine network in
our environment and the Windows Update site hangs/fails for me as well. The
problem in my case is that Squid is a transparent proxy, and when you click
on either the "Custom" or "Express" options, it briefly requires an SSL
connection to download.windowsupdate.com - since Squid doesn't seem to have
a way to do that in transparent mode, it fails.

If I set IE to use Squid as a proxy directly, it'll work. Have you tried
setting the proxy settings directly in IE yet?

Aaron

Lasse Mørk wrote:
> Is there anyway to get around this issue?
>
> It just stalls now where it looks for latest updates.
> Maybe without caching the windows update files?
>
> I am getting kinda desperate!
>
>
>
>>Hmm.. Dosn't seem to help :(
>>
>>It still lacks and run terrible slow.
>>
>>
>>>On 8/11/05, Lasse Mørk <debian@cyrix.dk> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hey all
>>>>
>>>>squid 2.5.9-10 running debian.
>>>>
>>>>Does anyone knows what to do, when windows update hangs ?
>>>>Sometime it just stalls, but now and then it works, although it is got
>>>>damn slow :(
>>>>
>>>>Including that, it prompts for user and passwords just before it checks
>>>>for updates, I belive it is?
>>>>
>>>>Any solution to this? The best thing would be if it was possible to
>>>>cache
>>>>the updates, but it worst case I might have to remove the windows
>>>>update
>>>>site, from the proxy list.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-11.html#ss11.54
>>>
>>> M.
>>>
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Aaron McDonnell
Network Administrator
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University of Western Ontario
Tel: 519-661-2111 ext. 86558