Re: [squid-users] Weird problem with IE on W2K

Oh also, IE seems to be a lot slower when using squid as opposed to
direct requests. Pages take longer to load. Netscape 6.1 on Win2k
doesn't have this problem. It is much much much faster tan IE when
using squid. In fact I don't notice any difference between direct
requests and using squid with Netscape 6.1.

Oliver Jones wrote:

> 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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