Re: [squid-users] Online game does not work with squid...

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:03:04 +0100

Robert Collins wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 02:29, Wei Keong wrote:
> > I encountered error 503 (ERR_CONNECT_FAIL 111) when our users tried to
> > play an online game that uses the following request to download patch file.
> >
> > POST /games/PSW/ENB/12800-BETA2 HTTP/1.0\r\n
> > User-Agent: PSW_EARTHANDBEYOND\r\n
> > Connection: Keep-Alive\r\n
> > Content-lentgh: 191\r\n
> > Pragma: no-cache\r\n
> > Content-type: application/marimba\r\n
> > Request-type: update/13\r\n
> > \r\n
> >
> > Request-type does not seems to be part of HTTP/1.0 protocol. Can squid
> > handle this request properly?
>
> Yes, squid handles extra headers ok. However, there is no host specified
> in that request, so squid won't know where to send it.

Well.. it will assuming this is a transparent proxy setup and Squid is
set up correctly with support for the TCP interception method used.

If Squid is running as a normal proxy then the above request obviously
won't work as it is not a proxy request.

What is reported in access.log and/or cache.log?

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Nov 21 2002 - 09:38:56 MST

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