RE: [squid-users] certain pages loading correctly in Firefox but not IE

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:39:53 +1000, "Timothy Larrea"
<webmaster_at_wccs.nsw.edu.au> wrote:
> That's what I thought initially, however the pages load fine in both
> browsers when the proxy server is bypassed completely.

You are going to have to compare the headers sent by firefox and IE. There
are HTTP/1.1 things that IE does that Squid cannot cope with in older
versions. Then there are things that older Squid like 2.6 do that they
shouldn't. The only way to know is to look deeper than "it doesn't work".

Amos

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amos Jeffries [mailto:squid3_at_treenet.co.nz]
> Sent: Friday, 12 June 2009 8:32 PM
> To: Timothy Larrea
> Cc: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] certain pages loading correctly in Firefox
> but not IE
>
> Timothy Larrea wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> we currently have a squid proxy (2.6.stable5 ) running, and it seems
>> that certain pages, such as our google docs site, and youtube don't
> load
>> correctly when using IE as the browser, but Firefox is fine. In IE,
> the
>> page loads all the text, but it seems to be missing the CSS data and
>> javascripts, so the text is large and all over the place. Another odd
>> thing is that if you attempt to load a page, close IE, then reopen it
>> and load that page again, it works 2nd time around. I've tested this
> on
>> a clean XP install with IE6 IE7, Vista, Windows 7 etc.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> IE has trouble loading things sometimes. That other browsers can get it
> shows its unlikely to be a Squid issue.
>
> Look at the headers being sent by each browser in their requests for the
>
> CSS and compare.
>
> Amos
Received on Sun Jun 14 2009 - 23:14:29 MDT