Re: [squid-users] Windows XP

I've started running to Windows Update not working right as well.
Specifically it seems to either be atrociously slow (taking 10-15 minutes to
load a list of potential updates), or it just does nothing and the browser
(IE6 on the machines I've tested it on) hangs and has to be killed.

Machines not going through my Squid proxy (2.4Stable6, FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE)
load up Windows Update stuff nearly instantaneously.

It would appear that MS has switched Win2k over to V4 of Windows Update
fairly recently, as in the last couple of weeks at the longest. This is
significant because XP, which the original poster was using, has always used
V4.

I'm guessing there's something about V4 that doesn't play nice with Squid,
but I don't know what.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Cooper" <joe@swelltech.com>
To: "Allan Lyons" <lyonsa@calcgw.wycliffe.ca>
Cc: "Sidney Perry" <perrys@osceola.k12.fl.us>; <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 19:10
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Windows XP

> Well...He is running a very old Squid. It isn't unlikely that something
> had been fixed or added since 2.3STABLE3. (Request methods come to mind.)
>
> Upgrade to 2.4STABLE6, Sidney. Then give us a report.
>
> Allan Lyons wrote:
> > I believe that this is a long-standing issue. Others have had this
problem with Mac
> > Updates so it might not be a specific interaction with windows updates.
> >
> > If you have any new information, you might be able to add it to bug# 150
> >
> > http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=150
> >
> > I believe that this bug has been open for over a year now and different
people see this
> > issue with different platforms so I don't believe that it is platform
specific. On the other
> > hand, I believe that it works for some. Perhaps it is a tuning issue.
> >
> > If it really is a configuration issue that someone has solved, perhaps
we could put the
> > answer in the FAQ somewhere and actually close this bug.
> >
> > This issue has been discussed on the list in the past.
> >
> > Allan.
> >
> > On 31 May 2002 at 16:55, Sidney Perry wrote:
> >
> >
> >>When trying to update Windows XP through windowsupdate it fails if I
> >>go through the Proxy
> >>
> >>The proxy is Squid 2.3 Stable 3 running on Sun Enterprise 450 (4x
> >>400Mhz + 4Gb Ram) w/ Solaris 8
>
>
> --
> Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
> Web caching appliances and support.
> http://www.swelltech.com
>
Received on Wed Jun 12 2002 - 13:19:22 MDT