Re: [squid-users] Squid mishandling certain kinds of media types

> I have a single squid box running FreeBSD that is behaving very strangely.
> With certain types of media files, most notably mp3, ra and wmv files, squid
> lists them as mime type text/html. Another oddity is that when requesting
> these types of files, the IP of the squid box shows up as the source of the
> file, rather than the original server. Its almost as if squid thinks it has
> the item in the cache, regardless of the fact that the object is a cache
> miss. Has anyone seen this behavior before? An example from the box's
> access.log is below. The IP of the squid box is 10.0.1.3
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> 1131727283.043 116 10.0.1.224 TCP_MISS/200 2757 GET
> http://www.ojaiwan.net/audio/cowbell.wmv - DIRECT/10.0.1.3 text/html
>
>

  The remote websever may be a fault; returning insufficient mime
  types.
  Check this out with :

                      http://web-sniffer.net/

  If squid requests an object from a remote webserver
  then logic tells that the source address of the requestor is
  the ip address of the SQUID box.

  M.
Received on Fri Nov 11 2005 - 10:45:42 MST