Re: [squid-users] Invalid URL errors on valid URLs

* On 22/11/05 14:05 +0100, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
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> On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, WinSE wrote:
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> >The url I used was: http://www.livejournal.com/
> >This url works fine without using squid.
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> >The error I recieved was:
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> >ERROR
> >The requested URL could not be retrieved
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> >While trying to retrieve the URL: /
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> Is the site using https for part of the content? Then you are most likely
> experiencing MSIE bugs related to persistent connections.
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> There is two solutions, either:
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> a) "client_persistent_connections off" in squid.conf, with the negative
> effect that normal browsing is somewhat slower, especially for
> dialup or long-distance WAN users.
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> b) Configure the browser with slightly different proxy settings for the
> https proxy. Either a different port, or a different hostname pointing to
> the same proxy.

It was a case of a folk running on transparent proxy mode without the
necessary config params in squid.conf required for such a setup.
I've managed to sort him out off-list, or so he tells me!

-Wash

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