Re: [squid-users] Squid Forbidden error for some websites

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:20:35 +1300

On 4/01/2012 10:58 p.m., Muhammed Sameer wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I installed and configured squid 2.6 stable, everything was working fine till my users started complaining of forbidden errors on certain websites
>
> The exact error that was reported was
>
> <s>
> Forbidden
>
> You do not have permission to access / on this server.
>
> Additionally, A 500 Internal Server error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
> </s>
>
> After some tcpdumping, it became clear that those websites require HTTP/1.0 and squid 2.6 sends HTTP/1.0 headers. The only way to fix this for me was to upgrade to 2.7 and enable the server_http11 option on.

? something is really screwed at that server. HTTP/1.1 only contains
bandwidth optimization features, none would normally lead to that Apache
"Forbidden" message.

Alternatively, you can upgrade to a current Squid-3.1 where HTTP/1.1 is
supported even more than in 2.7.

>
> I am sure about this issue being caused due to this issue, because on 2.7 if I disable server_http11 I again get the forbidden message and turning it on allows the website to load normally.

Amos
Received on Wed Jan 04 2012 - 10:20:46 MST

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