Re: [squid-users] Strange problems with squid

Brett Murphy wrote:

> Mar 21 22:32:08 gamma squid[4817]: urlParse: Illegal character in hostname
> 'proxy.alphalink.com.au:8080proxy.alphalink.com.au'

This is caused by a malfunctioned client configured to use your proxy as
proxy.

> Mar 22 00:06:50 delta squid[27244]: WARNING: Forwarding loop detected for:
> GET
> /scripts/rgs/RgsInit.ASP?AW=168&LV=2045&AS=0&D2=%32_OAC_CH%32_@%32C&CU=6470636
> HTTP/1.0^M User-Agent: Mozilla/4.01 [en] (WinNT; I)^M Pragma: no-cache^M
> Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*^M
> Accept-Language: en^M Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8^M Via: 1.0
> delta.alphalink.com.au:8080 (Squid/2.2.STABLE5-hno.20000202), 1.0
> lambda.alphalink.com.au:8080 (Squid/2.2.STABLE5-hno.20000202)^M
> X-Forwarded-For: 203.24.205.99, 203.62.180.3^M Host:
> proxy.alphalink.com.au^M Cache-Control: max-age=259200^M Connection:
> keep-alive^M ^M

This should not be seen unless the client actually requests
http://proxy.alphalink.com.au/scripts/rgs/....

However, there are some errors you can do in "transparent" setups that
might confuse the proxy. Make sure your proxy is configured with
httpd_accel_host virtual, and that Squid knows about the packet
redirection method used.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker