> Hello all. I am running Squid in a medium size environment and have > been seeing some proxy failures. I am running RedHat Enterprise Server > 4.0 with squid version squid-2.5.STABLE6-3.4E.11. Follows is an > example. I've got three sites doing this at this point. I have tried > to acl them to always_direct but to no avail. > Thanks in advance for any insight into this issue. > The url is: http://www.baylor.edu/alumni/splash.php > The squid response is: > ERROR > The requested URL could not be retrieved > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------- > While trying to process the request: > GET /alumni/splash.php HTTP/1.0 > Accept: */* > Referer: http://www.baylor.edu > Accept-Language: en-us > Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive > User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; > .NET CLR 1.1.4322) > Host: www.baylor.edu > The following error was encountered: > Invalid Response > The HTTP Response message received from the contacted server could not > be understood or was otherwise malformed. Please contact the site > operator. Your cache administrator may be able to provide you with more > details about the exact nature of the problem if needed. > > > The remote webserver is broken, it sends http1.1 replies on http1.0 requests : http://web-sniffer.net/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.baylor.edu%2F&submit=Submit&http=1.0h&gzip=yes&type=GET&ua=Mozilla%2F5.0+%28Windows%3B+U%3B+Windows+NT+5.1%3B+nl%3B+rv%3A1.8%29+Gecko%2F20051111+Firefox%2F1.5+Web-Sniffer%2F1.0.23 Advice : - install the latest STABLE release, much code has been added to deal with weirdo remote webserver, and provide some sane handling for various cases. - another benefit is that the redhat rpm's have all configure options are enabled , which is overkill. Configure only what you need, when installing the latest STABLE release. M.