RE: [squid-users] Hotmail blank page Too

Hi Henrik,

I have a transparent squid, and its set up as a gateway. Everybody has External IP address.

How can i use your advice so that i don;t run problems with other web sites ?

Rgds,

Manish.

-----Original message-----
From: Henrik Nordstrom hno@squid-cache.org
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:28:55 +0300
To: Lucia Di Occhi saint_lucy@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: [squid-users] Hotmail blank page Too

>
>
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Lucia Di Occhi wrote:
>
> > I had forgotten to mention I am using Transparent Mode.
>
> Transparent interception is evil.
>
> If you absolutely MUST transparently intercept the client traffic then I
> highly recommend to NAT all traffic (proxied and direct) to the same IP
> address. If not you will certainly run into login and/or session problems
> with numerous web sites.
>
> In addition you should expect things will break with MSIE and other
> advanced browsers from time to time in combination with transparent
> interception. In such configurations the browsers rightfully assume there
> is no proxy in the request chain as they have not been configured to use
> one, but then the interception violates the fundamentals of TCP/IP making
> the browsers assumptions fail badly.
>
> But most often the causes to problems is web sites which is overly
> sensitive to the source IP address of the client. Not sure if this is the
> case for MSN at the moment.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
Received on Thu Dec 23 2004 - 00:08:49 MST