[squid-users] RE: Browsing just stop.. IE Issue?

Hi Scott,
I've seen this as well with IE, and I suspect that if you
reproduce the problem and type 'netstat' at a command prompt
on the box, you'll find that IE has all 4 sockets in 'close_wait'
state and they will never disappear or close. It has nothing to
do with authentication, but rather is a bug with IE managing it's
connections. I've found that either flipping the
tools->options->advanced->'use http1.1 through proxy'
option, or alternately, applying one of the patches
included with this patch from MS - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324929
will solve the problem.

-James Wilkinson

> Running Squid 2.5-STABLE1 (I know, I need to upgrade) on
> Redhat 7.3 using winbind as an authenticator. Only recently
> have a I noticed a problem on both of the machines I use at
> work when using the proxy. Usually after going to 5 or 6
> different links, the little logo in the upper right corner of
> IE goes to an animated state, but that it. After a period of
> time, a browser error will pop up indicating that the page
> couldn't be displayed. But it's not a Squid message, even
> though it's set up to use the proxy. When I disable the
> proxy, it works fine, no problems.
>
> Now, I've got both machines set to automatically detect the
> settings. I'm going to do some testing if I have it manually
> get the config script.
>
> What I'm wondering is does anyone have any ideas what's going
> on? It's almost like the proxy just ceases to exist until I
> open a new browser window.
Received on Mon May 19 2003 - 11:37:21 MDT