RE: [squid-users] Hotmail Still

I want to apologize to the list as this is not a squid issue.

Hopefully someone will find this information useful:

All my users browse the net through a pix firewall, which is configured to
url filter through a websense server. Once I disabled url filtering on the
pix (bypassing websense), proxy clients to hotmail work fine. I've added an
exception for the squid server to not be url-filtered for now.

Thanks,
Robert Hoatson

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Cooper [mailto:joe@swelltech.com]
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 12:26 PM
To: Hoatson Robert
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Hotmail Still

I haven't seen this problem, either transparently or with traditional
proxying (and we don't disable caching of these sites either).

It sounds like the request is timing out and then the browser
re-requests it--which then works. Do you have a firewall between Squid
and the internet?

Have you tried it without the no_cache directives? (It shouldn't make a
difference, but I'm curious.)

hoatsonr@mwhse.com wrote:
> Posting again because I haven't solved my hotmail.com problem which is
> preventing me from deploying squid.
>
> Running on Squid 2.4 Stable4 on Freebsd 4.5-Release. Added gre
> patches, gre.c and recompiled the kernel with GRE, IPFIREWALL and
> IPFIREWALL_FORWARD options.
>
> Currently, I am only pointing my browser at the squid box on port 3128
> for testing but will deploy with wccp/interception caching when I work
> this problem out.
>
> The problem I am having is when logging into, out of, composing mail,
> etc on hotmail.com.
> Example: after logging in to hotmail, when I click 'inbox' it appears
> I get no response and squids access.log shows no activity. In
> reality, if I wait about 2 minutes the pages come up and access.log
> updates.
>
> I have the following no_cache entries in squid.conf:
>
> acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
> acl hotmail dstdomain .hotmail.com
> acl msn dstdomain .msn.com
> acl passport dstdomain .passport.com
> no_cache deny QUERY
> no_cache deny hotmail
> no_cache deny msn
> no_cache deny passport
>
> I also have the following configured while testing in anticipation of
> interception caching: http_port 3128
> httpd_accel_host virtual
> httpd_accel_port 80
> httpd_accel_with_proxy on
> httpd_accel_uses_host_header on
>
> I sincerely appreciate any help offered.
> Robert Hoatson
>
>
>

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Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
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