Re: [squid-users] Windows XP inconsistent on proxy use?

Are you sure that it's IE 6 trying port 80 or might it be some other
little program on the machine that ignores proxy settings? (e.g. spyware
program/windows update/messenger/etc)

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 12:21, Rick Matthews wrote:
> I have a Windows XP box running IE 6.0.2800 and it is configured to
> use my squid proxy at 192.168.44.1:3128. Everything appears to work
> fine from a user perspective.
>
> I am blocking outbound port 80 at my firewall and whenever this PC
> is in use I see blocked port 80 attempts. I spent about 15 minutes
> this morning doing general browsing on that PC, and then checked the
> firewall log. I was surprised to find a large number of port 80
> entries. There were only about 12 ip addresses, but all of them
> had multiple entries (50+).
>
> I looked in squid's access.log and quickly found 4 or 5 of the
> ip addresses listed for sites that I visited. Is it possible
> that while trying to load a page, IE would send most of the links
> using the proxy and send a few of them via port 80? That's how it
> looks to me. While I was browsing I did not notice red "x's" or
> other indications that items had not been loaded. Maybe it
> tried direct and then fell back to the proxy? (I'm not using
> a proxy.pac file; the proxy address and port has been entered.)
>
> I had tcpdump running at the time (looking for something else)
> so I have the requests captured, but looking at them doesn't
> do anything for me.
>
> As I was researching this I found that my squid version (2.4.STABLE6)
> is a little dated; could that have anything to do with this issue?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> Rick
Received on Fri Jun 13 2003 - 14:11:48 MDT