Re: [squid-users] Zero Sized Reply / Invalid response

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:41:31 +1200

Pedro Mansito Pérez wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Our Company is using Squid 2.6.STABLE14 on a Slackware 12.0 box. A few
> weeks ago we began to have errors accessing some web pages, but not all,
> on a supplier web site. If we do not use a proxy server we can access
> those web pages; we have tested it with Safari, Camino and Firefox on
> Mac OS X, and IE 6 and 7, and Firefox on Windows. On Squid 2.6 we get a
> Zero Sized Reply error; on a Squid 3.0.STABLE7 test box (also on
> Slackware 12.0) we have an Invalid Response Error. If, on Internet
> Explorer, we disable the use of HTTP/1.1 on proxy connections we can
> access the page using Squid.
>
> The supplier insists that since we can access the pages without Squid,
> the problem must be ours. I replied him that it all begin a few weeks
> ago, so the problem is theirs.

It's a problem with the Source web server.
The Server is sending FORBIDDEN chunked-encoded data to a HTTP/1.0
client (Squid).

http://squidproxy.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/chunked-decoding/

You will need to upgrade your squid to a later 2.6 (or 2.7)
or to use 3.0 selectively set the ACL header hack for the domain.

Amos

-- 
Please use Squid 2.7.STABLE3 or 3.0.STABLE8
Received on Fri Aug 15 2008 - 07:41:26 MDT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Mon Aug 18 2008 - 12:00:03 MDT