Thanks, I suspected as much. On 8 November 2012 15:55, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 8/11/2012 5:19 p.m., James Robertson wrote: >> >> We have an ACL that includes facebook.com as a blocked site. Another >> site that staff use for work is www.redbook.com.au, this site has >> links all through it to facebook, twitter etc. >> >> The problem is that when navigating www.redbook.com.au it tries to >> connect to https://www.facebook.com but because it is blocked this >> causes www.redbook.com.au to fail with an error such as in IE >> "Internet Explorer cannot display the web page". >> >> The process to repeat the issue is: >> >> 1. Head to http://www.redbook.com.au >> 2. Enter in a make, model and year to find a car for and hit search >> 3. Click on one of the results that it finds >> 4. Pick one of the sub-models (Version of the car ie VL, VS, things like >> that) >> 5. The next page is usually where it stops (it should provides details >> for an individual car) >> >> The log excerpt attached is from the proxy and I have marked when the >> failure occurs. >> >> If I allow facebook everything works fine. Is is possible to still >> block facebook but stop it making redbook die? > > > Nope. At least not with anythign Squid can do. > > As your log shows all Squid has done is sent a 403 Forbidden response. > Perfectly reasonable thing to send when access is being forbidden. Killing > the entire browser page loading and display process when a single object > fails is a bug in the browser. > > Amos
