Re: [squid-users] No forward-proxy ports error in 3.3

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> On 25/04/2012 6:04 p.m., Ahmed Talha Khan wrote:
>>
>> Looking at the explanation you gave it seems that forward_proxy is not
>> a necessary if my setup allows for it. My case is that of simple
>> forward proxy. I do not have any proxy peers, nor am i accessing the
>> cachemgr.cgi. So in the case of normal webpage requests e.g
>> www.google.com none of these should come into play and my setup should
>> work. Correct me if i am wrong.
>>
>> Lets say my squid is running on a machine 192.168.8.40 and i choose
>> port 8080 as the proxy_forward port. Then i will configure it like
>> this
>>
>> http_port 192.168.8.40:8080
>>
>> The error page that you mentioned, will that be transferred to the
>> client via this port? If that is the case, then how is my client going
>> to associate that as response for one of its requests. Lets say client
>> is at 192.168.8.39. He makes a request for a page which is not
>> accesible. Squid will return the error page to client via its 8080
>> port?
>
>
> The error message itself is transferred back as the response to a clients
> request. It is embeded URLs inside the error response which use the forward
> proxy port.
>
> Open a blocked website through the proxy and you will see what I mean. The
> Squid icon in the top left of the page is served up by your 3.2+ proxy.
>
>
>
>>
>> Actually i am getting confused by usage of this in 3.2/3.3 versus
>> earlier version of 3.1. So bear with me if you can :)
>>
>> Coming back to my original problem of some webpages not opening for my
>> 3.3 setup. Any suggestions? Some of the web pages are not opening and
>> some are opening. Something weird is happening. e.g www.yahoo.com wont
>> open,  but http://www.squid-cache.org/ will open. For the pages that
>> donot open, the client sends a GET request to the resolved IP but
>> there is no http response. I verified that on wireshark.
>
>
> This sounds like http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3528.

So what do you propose i do? Try applying the patch the Guy has
mentioned? Or the one you have mentioned. Mine is not the case of
syn+ack getting stuck, neither is it the case of packet drop outside
of squid. I verified these via wireshark. What could bet he fix?

>
> Amos

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Regards,
-Ahmed Talha Khan