decrease time-out value for error messages?

Guru type question/s

1) I've got a http accelerator
I've set:
connect_timeout 1 seconds
minimum_retry_timeout 5 seconds --( won't let me set it less)
peer_connect_timeout 1 seconds -- ( I'm not sure if squid uses this
for http accelerators)

If the web server goes down, which has just happened, it takes about 4
to 5 minutes before I see the ERR_CONNECT_FAIL web page. How can I
speed this up?

2) If you replace the ERR_CONNECT_FAIL web page with the companies web
page, you still get at the bottom a line and under it:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Generated Thu, 29 Jun 2000 22:06:59 GMT by solaris7
(Squid/2.3.STABLE3)

How can you remove the above text and line ? I can't seem to find
info on this anywhere.

Thanks, any help appreciated
Received on Thu Jun 29 2000 - 14:36:20 MDT