Thank you everyone for your help. The dedicated server company where my squid is located has just reported to me that "we are blocking outgoing connections on tcp/3128 port for security reasons". Does this mean that they are a "squid unfriendly" company? Is there any reason to block that port, and not other ports associated with proxy servers?? Thank you all again, I appreciate the help with troubleshooting. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you're surfing. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/index.php