What this page refer to is the Host header rearrangement done by
squid-2.5.STABLE3 and earlier and which was found to cause some broken web
servers / firewalls to break in different manners. More information on
this issue can be found from the Squid-2.5 bugs page
<url:http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/#squid-2.5.STABLE3-hostheader>
Please note that this is not a Squid bug but yet anoter case of broken
firewalls which should be thrown out with yesterdays garbage (or at least
the failing function should be immediately disabled). It is truly amasing
to see such critical bugs in high profile web site implementations, and
even more amasing there apparently is vendors who dare to sell such
equipment/software claiming it works fine for such use.... but I guess the
high profile web sites trusts big vendors to make correct solutions and
don't even bother to verify the functionality before going into
production.
Regards
Henrik
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Trevor wrote:
> From the MIS-Helpdesk Site: "A zero sized reply can be returned for sites
> that have complex urls or require the use of cookies (Eg. hotmail and yahoo
> webmail sites). In order to prevent this from occurring a new version of
> squid will have to be installed which has a patch to alter the requests
> squid makes."
Received on Tue Dec 09 2003 - 16:06:34 MST
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