Since switching to Squid for our proxy, some of our users are experiencing the following problem: When Internet Explorer is not yet loaded and authentication with Squid (using basic authentication) has therefore not yet been performed by the client, opening an Internet Shortcut from their Windows desktop pops up an authentication dialogue. Immediately after authenticating, an error is displayed as attached below. This error only occurs for shortcuts to certain sites (ASP related perhaps?) and not all client workstations experience the problem even though the shortcuts are the same. It's been witnessed on Windows 98 and Windows XP workstations, but not all XP workstations encounter the problem. After getting this error, refreshing Internet Explorer loads the page with no errors. Also, if the user's Internet Explorer is already loaded and authenticated with Squid, then opening the desktop shortcut does not produce an error. Has anyone else experienced a problem similar to this? Is it a known problem? Is there a resolution? Many thanks, Philip Hachey
