[squid-users] RE: [Bulk] RE: [squid-users] FW: IE not using the proxy

Thanks - what little info there seems to be available suggests that the
Bittorrent client will indeed recognize the IE (system) HTTP proxy setting,
and will use it to forward tracker requests.

Obviously, the info is incorrect.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nolan Rumble [mailto:nmr@sun.ac.za]
Sent: December 29, 2005 12:56 PM
To: Dave Beach
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: [Bulk] RE: [squid-users] FW: IE not using the proxy

<snip>

When debugging a Bittorrent problem, I have happened to notice that the XP
box is sending port 80 traffic directly to the firewall, where it is being
dropped (as it should). This only seems to happen with Bittorrent, as the
rest of the time web browsing from the XP box seems to correctly use the
proxy.

Any idea how/why this might be happening? Any other information that I could
provide that might be useful?

<snip>

This is not a squid problem. The problem is that Bittorrent doesn't know
about the proxy server and hence tries to make a direct connection to the
website, where it gets blocked by your firewall.

Perhaps to force all 80 traffic via the proxy (transparent proxying) and
then any traffic on port 80 traffic gets cached? You will have to setup
your proxy server differently though and play around with your firewall
rules.

Cheers
Nolan
Received on Thu Dec 29 2005 - 16:56:30 MST