Re: [squid-users] error in opening google.com in firefox

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> On 11/06/2012 6:11 p.m., Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Eliezer Croitoru<eliezer_at_ngtech.co.il>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> proxy is uses as a server to client that is aware of it.
>>> this is what called forward proxy.
>>> you define in the browserthe proxy address and port then use it.
>>> to work with that you define in squid.conf the line:
>>> http_port 3128
>>> or any other port.
>>> if you want to "intercept" the clients connections so the proxy will
>>> always
>>> work on their traffic you must use another argument:
>>> http_port 3128 intercept
>>
>> i just learn that "intercept" is a new name of "transparent" however i
>> can not use transparent since i want to block https domains in working
>> hours which is not possible in transparent. since squid is working
>> only on http traffic. correct me if i am wrong since i am new?
>
>
>>> some more info about it you can find here:
>>> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/http_port/
>>>
>>> are you using linux?
>>> if so did you configure any iptables rules for squid to work?
>>
>> yes i am using linux. do you mean that i should redirect 3128 traffice
>> to port 80 via iptables  and squid will be listening on port 80. is
>> this what you mean?
>
>
> He was asking if you have "transparent interception proxy" setup. You said
> no.

sorry for my weak english. i understood it wrong.

>
> IE is apparently not working properly. When configured with a proxy it
> should be passing HTTP to the proxy in proxy format. It is passing HTTP to
> the proxy in a different format which is only safely used on port 80.
>
> In particular the format sent lacks the "http://" part of URL and Squid is
> unable to determine whether it is an HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Gopher or some other
> internal request.
>

you were right. restart of the system resolves the issue. i believe
it was an application layer issue. it has nothing to do with squid.

Thanks,
>
> Amos
Received on Mon Jun 11 2012 - 11:27:10 MDT