Hello, I have a very simple ESI configuration using squid in front of a Zope server. Incoming client requests are rewritten using a redirector. When I submit a client request from a browser I get an error message from squid: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ While trying to retrieve the URL: http://127.0.0.1:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/devel:80/plone/VirtualHostRoot/test.html The following error was encountered: * Unable to forward this request at this time. This request could not be forwarded to the origin server or to any parent caches. The most likely cause for this error is that: * The cache administrator does not allow this cache to make direct connections to origin servers, and * All configured parent caches are currently unreachable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the cache_log I see the following (after increasing the appropriate debug level): fwdStart: 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/devel:80/plone/VirtualHostRoot/test.html' fwdStartComplete: http://127.0.0.1:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/devel:80/plone/VirtualHostRoot/test.html fwdStartFail: http://127.0.0.1:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/devel:80/plone/VirtualHostRoot/test.html fwdFail: ERR_CANNOT_FORWARD "Service Unavailable" http://127.0.0.1:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/devel:80/plone/VirtualHostRoot/test.html fwdStateFree: 0x853c018 The client, squid and Zope are all running on the same host. When I enter the above URL, which causes the error in squid, directly in the browser, it works - i.e. I don't get "Service Unavailable". When sniffing the network traffic between squid and Zope, there is *NO* connection attempt from squid to Zope. So squid decides from its own point of view, that the "Service is Unavailable". There seems to be a problem with request forwarding in squid. Can anyone help? My squid configuration is attached below. Best regards -Stefan-