Re: [squid-users] remote 403 error through squid

Certainly..the site in question is http://www.murfreesborotn.gov

I find it strange that when i go to http://www.murfreesborotn.gov//
(with 2 slashes at the end) it load properly through the proxy.

Thomas

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Thomas Reed wrote:
>
>> Details:
>>
>> If i hit the website as http://we.bs.ite/ I get a 403 error from the
>> webserver there, I'm guessing its denying me a directory listing.
>
>
> In all similar cases shown so far the cause have been malfunctioing
> web servers (or related equipment such as firewalls or IDS systems)
> getting wrongly upset about some HTTP detail.
>
> would be much easier to help you if you could provide the name of the
> actual site in question.
>
> If not then bang the web site with different mutations of the HTTP
> request as sent when going directly or when going via the proxy until
> you find what is making the difference, then read RFC2616 on what that
> request header is supposed to mean and ponder on if this could be a
> valid reason to a 403 Forbidden response (answer: it is not).
>
> The only cases seen where it has not been due to malfunctioning web
> servers is when the requestors proxy server had been banned from using
> the requested site at all, but then all requests to the site returns
> 403 regardless of the URL, and also when runing a browser locally on
> the proxy server but without using the proxy.. (the ban is on the IP
> of the proxy).
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
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Received on Sat Sep 10 2005 - 22:17:53 MDT