[squid-users] Options Requests

Hello,

I want to know why, almost all windows XP/2K from our network, send multiple
requests to the proxy server trying to access some network shares or even to
resolve names.

How can I avoid it ?

Here are some examples that I copied today from squid access log.

192.168.74.79 - - [12/Oct/2004:01:55:49 -0300] "OPTIONS http://saturno/
HTTP/1.0" 403 1578 TCP_DENIED:NONE
192.168.74.79 - - [12/Oct/2004:01:55:52 -0300] "OPTIONS http://terra/
HTTP/1.0" 403 1574 TCP_DENIED:NONE
192.168.74.79 - - [12/Oct/2004:01:55:52 -0300] "OPTIONS http://epimetheus/
HTTP/1.0" 403 1584 TCP_DENIED:NONE
192.168.74.79 - - [12/Oct/2004:01:55:53 -0300] "OPTIONS http://epimetheus/
HTTP/1.0" 403 1584 TCP_DENIED:NONE
192.168.74.79 - - [12/Oct/2004:01:55:53 -0300] "PROPFIND
http://epimetheus/telefonicarec_op HTTP/1.0" 403 1616 TCP_DENIED:NONE
192.168.74.79 - - [12/Oct/2004:01:55:53 -0300] "OPTIONS http://epimetheus/
HTTP/1.0" 403 1584 TCP_DENIED:NONE
192.168.74.79 - - [12/Oct/2004:01:56:00 -0300] "OPTIONS http://epimetheus/
HTTP/1.0" 403 1584 TCP_DENIED:NONE
192.168.74.79 - - [12/Oct/2004:01:56:00 -0300] "OPTIONS http://epimetheus/
HTTP/1.0" 403 1584 TCP_DENIED:NONE
192.168.74.79 - - [12/Oct/2004:01:56:00 -0300] "OPTIONS http://epimetheus/
HTTP/1.0" 403 1584 TCP_DENIED:NONE
192.168.74.79 - - [12/Oct/2004:01:56:00 -0300] "OPTIONS http://epimetheus/
HTTP/1.0" 403 1584 TCP_DENIED:NONE
192.168.74.130 - - [12/Oct/2004:02:08:51 -0300] "OPTIONS http://saturno/
HTTP/1.0" 403 1578 TCP_DENIED:NONE
192.168.74.130 - - [12/Oct/2004:02:08:55 -0300] "OPTIONS http://proteus/
HTTP/1.0" 403 1578 TCP_DENIED:NONE
192.168.74.130 - - [12/Oct/2004:02:08:55 -0300] "OPTIONS http://terra/
HTTP/1.0" 403 1574 TCP_DENIED:NONE
Received on Mon Oct 11 2004 - 22:23:03 MDT