AW: [squid-users] Corruption of downloads

We observed a similar problem.

Using SQUID 2.5pre13 and IE 5.5 I tried do download a file with size 109 MB.
About 79 MB (AFAIK) were stored on disk. Repeating this download 2 times
gave always exact the same result.

Using wget dwonload was fast and ok.

Werner Rost

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Markus.Rietzler@rzf.fin-nrw.de
> [mailto:Markus.Rietzler@rzf.fin-nrw.de]
> Gesendet am: Freitag, 20. September 2002 10:38
> An: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Cc: IMCEAMAILTO-blymn+40baesystems+2Ecom+2Eau@hub.fin-nrw.de;
> ccroy@yowie.cc.uq.edu.au
> Betreff: AW: [squid-users] Corruption of downloads
>
> we have exact the same problem. when downloading large files
> then they get
> corrupt.
> we had this with an older version of squid 2.4 but even with
> the recent
> stable7.
> as brett said, the problem seems to occur when there are more
> than one squid
> is involeved.
> we have a proxy hierachy with user-proxie (located in our
> locations), one
> central proxy
> system in our intranet and this will connect to our proxy in
> DMZ. downloads
> via this
> 3 proxie are corrupt. when you directly access the proxy in DMZ then
> everything seems
> to work. but this is not an option! we have to use this hierachy.
>
>
>
> mfg
>
> Markus Rietzler
> * <rietzler_software/>
> * RZF NRW
> * Tel: 0211.4572-130
>
>
>
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Brett Lymn [mailto:blymn@baesystems.com.au]
> > Gesendet am: Freitag, 20. September 2002 04:51
> > An: Roy Duncan
> > Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org; ccroy@uq.edu.au
> > Betreff: Re: [squid-users] Corruption of downloads
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 10:57:27AM +1000, Roy Duncan wrote:
> > >
> > > I'd be very interested to know if anyone else on the list has
> > > experienced any problems or corruptions similar to these.
> > >
> >
> > Yes. I have seen this with older versions of squid too. Another
> > person on the list mentioned seeing this too. Unfortunately, the
> > incidence seems to be rather low.
> >
> > > The corruptions take the form of another, unrelated
> response header
> > > and body seemingly superimposed upon the body of the requested
> > > object. A typical example is shown at the end of this email.
> > > Although the contents are corrupted, the length of the downloaded
> > > file is always correct. The corruptions can seemingly
> > occur anywhere
> > > within the file.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, this is exactly what I saw. My work around was to bypass our
> > ISP's squid cache and go direct to the internet. This resolved our
> > problem.
> >
> > --
> > Brett Lymn
> >
>
>
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