Sirs, I have set up an acl for www.worldbookonline.com as follows: acl worldbookonline dstdomain .worldbookonline.com always_direct allow worldbookonline acl wbrl dstdomain wbrl.worldbookonline.com/ always_direct allow wbrl This is a subscription site for library research. When accessing the latter wbrl.worldbookonline.com all you get (sometimes) is a clicking sound and the page constantly reloads. grepping through the access logs I see 1142270646.852 2 10.40.17.72 TCP_IMS_HIT/304 220 GET http://wbrl.worldbookonline.com/Images_ie/activetab.gif - NONE/- image/gif ALLOW "Educational/Reference" 1142270646.854 2 10.40.17.72 TCP_IMS_HIT/304 220 GET http://wbrl.worldbookonline.com/Images_ie/itab1.gif - NONE/- image/gif ALLOW "Educational/Reference" 1142270646.854 2 10.40.17.72 TCP_IMS_HIT/304 220 GET http://wbrl.worldbookonline.com/Images_ie/itab2.gif - NONE/- image/gif ALLOW "Educational/Reference" 1142270646.858 1 10.40.17.72 TCP_IMS_HIT/304 220 GET http://wbrl.worldbookonline.com/Images_ie/itab3.gif - NONE/- image/gif ALLOW "Educational/Reference" 1142270646.860 2 10.40.17.72 TCP_IMS_HIT/304 220 GET http://wbrl.worldbookonline.com/Images_ie/spacer.gif - NONE/- image/gif ALLOW "Educational/Reference" 1142270646.860 2 10.40.17.72 TCP_IMS_HIT/304 220 GET http://wbrl.worldbookonline.com/Images_ie/side-window-bg-01.gif - NONE/- image/gif ALLOW "Educational/Reference" I guess I am a little confused about the none part of the access.log. I was expecting a /DIRECT maybe. Site seems to work when I first restart squid on the proxy server than it bombs out. I cant find anything different in the access.log or the cache.logs that indicates what the problem maybe. According to the tech support at worldbookonline, their site can not be proxied. Do I have my acl rules right for the workstation to directly connect to this site? If not what should I change? thanks, ddh -- Dwayne Hottinger Network Administrator Harrisonburg City Public Schools