RE: Netscape stays blocked

I found Netscape tended to hang when the proxy was set. However, when I
removed Socks from the services proxied it worked.

CHris Vaughan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Chadd [SMTP:adrian@creative.net.au]
> Sent: Friday, 5 February 1999 12:48
> To: squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: Re: Netscape stays blocked
>
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm new to the list. I've been trying to find info about this in the
> FAQ
> > /archives without success.
> >
> > Here's the problem:
> >
> > Netscape navigator (v3 and v4) blocks for a while when requesting
> pages
> > with slow access time or high latency. This block continues until
> some
> > kind of response is received from squid and may last even 5 seconds.
> The
> > problem doesn't seem to occur with IE.
> >
> > Anybody knows the reason of this or any solution?
> > I'm using Squid 2.0Patch2 on a Linux 2.0.35.
> >
>
> I only see this when netscape issues a resolver request and it
> takes a while to reply.
>
> If it has the proxy settings then it could happen if the nameserver
> your unix machine is set to query takes a while to give a response,
> but its more noticeable when someone is doing transparent proxying,
> and the nameserver netscape is querying takes a while to resolve
> the name of the website.
>
> Try setting the proxy lines in your netscape config to the *IP* of
> your squid cache and restart netscape, and see if it helps.
>
> (It might be netscape flushing its disk cache too, if it continues
> happening, try disabling disk cache..)
>
>
>
> Adrian
Received on Thu Feb 04 1999 - 14:36:26 MST