On 24/11/2011 12:42 a.m., Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral wrote:
Hi there, We are having some troubles with Internet Explorer users using Squid. On the server: Squid: 2.6.7 OS: Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 sp2 RAM: 2 GB On the Client: IE Version: 8 Using Identd auth Windows XP sp3 The problem is: loading almost web pages over IE spends a lot of time, and "The program is not responding" in task manager in Windows. We dont have this problem across other browsers like Firefox or Google Chrome. Loading the site without proxy, load well (on all browsers). If I see the logs (tail -f access.log | grep IP), I can detect that using IE spends a lot of time after the logs shows up a set of lines of the request, this doesnt happens with other browsers. Also I see a lot of TCP_MISS the first time the page is loaded, and TCP_HITs after (except the dynamic content). My intution says that the problem is on the comunication between IE and squid.
Possibly. Looked at the traffic yet?
Is there any issue related to IE, or there is a preferred configuration for this browser? In this case, could you give me a pointer to recheck all my configuration?
Nothing specific. This is end-user software remember, where the people in charge are often incapable of changing settings. Any configurable workarounds are usually in Squid where the admin/users have more knowledge and ability.
IIRC the one that used to come up often was the IE setting about sending HTTP/1.1 version to the proxy. Note that squid-2.6 is HTTP/1.0-only software with very limited 1.1 abilities (only around 20-40% of the RFC 2616 features supported).
Amos
