[squid-users] Re: IE Hang 2.5 Stable 4

> Having a problem with IE 6.0.2800.1106 and squid 2.5 stable 4.
>
> The problem is IE appears to hang while using the proxy. You can
> surf along without issue and then all of a sudden clicking on one
> more link will cause IE to just sit, the only fix appears to be to
> shut down IE and start over. Refresh doesn't work, clicking on
> other links doesn't work.

This has come up before on the mailling list, and you may be
experiencing the bug where IE will get it's connections to Squid
"jammed" in a wait_close state and not be able to transfer
anything after all 4 sockets it's allocated are jammed this way.
NExt time you see this happening, open a cmd prompt on the Win32
box w/o closing the browser. Type netstat, and see if you see
4 connections to squid in the "Wait_Close" state or something
similar to that. IF so, you have this problem.

There are 2 workarounds - one, go into the browser settings and
tools->internet options->advanced and find "use HTTP 1.1" and
"Use http 1.1 through proxy" and try toggling them to whatever
they aren't set as. Then try browsing again, and see if the same
connection problems happen.
Otherwise, try applying all the latest patches to IE, which
also seems to solve the issue.

Also, check the mailling list archives, this issue has been
one of those recurring issues that comes up every few weeks
and more detailed replies exist.

-James Wilkinson
Software & Network Engineer
Received on Tue Nov 11 2003 - 13:31:12 MST