Re: [squid-users] site slow in loading

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 02:48:48PM +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> >
> >1) the site seems to be much more responsive with squid 2.5 stable 6
> >2) the site seems to be much more responsive if I add the IP
> >addresses
> >for site servers into /etc/hosts.
>
> I'm still very suspicious that it is making use of HTTP/1.1 features
> badly. The difference between 2.x and 3.1 is that 2.x advertise HTTP/1.0
> to the server and passes the result back as HTTP/1.0 to the browser. But
> 3.1 advertises HTTP/1.1 abilities to the server and passes it back to
> the client browser with HTTP/1.0, most features are passed straight
> through, but some are down-mapped to HTTP/1.0 (chunked encoding and
> 100-continue responses are stripped).
>

OK - but does that explain point 2? The difference between no hosts
entry and a hosts entry is very dramatic.

>
> Can you get a full traffic trace of the requests and responses headers
> going through both the fast and slow versions of Squid? You may have to
> collect at both before and after Squid to notice anything different.
>

OK, I will run some packet captures - mind you, given the nature of the
site I won't be handing them about too freely ;)

-- 
Brett Lymn
"Warning:
The information contained in this email and any attached files is
confidential to BAE Systems Australia. If you are not the intended
recipient, any use, disclosure or copying of this email or any
attachments is expressly prohibited.  If you have received this email
in error, please notify us immediately. VIRUS: Every care has been
taken to ensure this email and its attachments are virus free,
however, any loss or damage incurred in using this email is not the
sender's responsibility.  It is your responsibility to ensure virus
checks are completed before installing any data sent in this email to
your computer."