On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 10:23:20 -0700, Randall Fidler <rfidler78@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I have squid up and running and the one issue which is causing > headaches is the viewing of PDF files. From sites which are in my > 'approved' list, if I click on a PDF link, my browser (Firefox) will > just hang and I eventually have to kill it. If I do the same action > without going through squid (same machine, same browser, same site, > etc.) then the Acrobat plugin fires up and I can view the pdf without > issue - so to me it's a squid related problem. > > Is there some port which I need to allow? If so I would think that > Squid would give me a 'denied' error, not just cause the browser to > hang up. > > Ideas? Adobe are known to send HTTP range requests out of order. Squid does not handle these but sends the request back to the origin server instead. With range_offset set to fetch the whole file you might experience hangs on large PDF files needing to be re-downloaded multiple times in order to fetch the various range sets Adobe requests. Amos
