[squid-users] Weird problem with IE on W2K

Hi.

I'm setting up a Linux box (Redhat 7.1) to be a firewall and I've
configured squid (squid-2.3.STABLE4-10.7.1) to proxy web requests.
 However I'm having a problem with IE. I've configured IE to use the
proxy (just specifing the cache specifically in the internet options, no
autoconf yet) and it is making requests to it. Everything seems to
work. Most of the time.

The problems I'm having appear at random. What happens is that using IE
5.5 I request a page and not all of the page gets downloaded. Usually
what happens is that some (or all) images are missing. Eg, I request
www.gamespot.com and the banner advert isn't downloaded nor are some of
the icons. Or I request www.mysql.com and the stylesheet and images are
not fetched. If I right click where the images should be and select
"Show Picture" the image is instantly downloaded (via the proxy) and
appears.

I've been playing around with the debug logging options ins squid.conf
and it appears when the original request was made the images were never
even requested for download. So I assume that either the communication
between IE and squid is bad during the request phase or somehow squid
'forgot' to fetch the items. I think the prior is most likely as so far
I've not been able to replicate the problem with Mozilla on Win32 or
Linux. Only IE 5.5 on Win2k. I've seen this problem before too. On
another Linux proxy machine (RedHat 5.2) with Win2k clients (IE 5.5)
images are not always retrieved when viewing pages.

What on earth could be the problem?? It is really starting to bug me
and I don't really know how to go about discovering what could be the cause.

Any help in nailing down a reasonable solution would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

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