Solved. I figured it out. Added connect-timeout=10 to the cache_peer line. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012, at 02:02 AM, Paul Ch wrote: > Hi, > > I have a squid 3.2 server setup as a reverse proxy forwarding to several > web servers. > If one of these web servers is shut down and a user attempts to access > it, the client's browser waits 110-120 seconds before displaying the > ERR_CANNOT_FORWARD message. > > I would like to reduce this time down to 15 seconds rather than over 100 > but would still like the ERR_CANNOT_FORWARD message to be displayed. > > How would i go about doing this? > > I have tried adding forward_timeout 10.00 second to the top of my > squid.conf file. This works however after 11 seconds, chrome displays > chrome displays: "No data received" "Error 324(net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE) > and firefox displays "The connection was reset.". > > I would like them to display ERR_CANNOT_FORWARD instead. > > I am guessing forward_timeout is not what I want (since its default > setting is 4 minutes so this is probably not what is happening after 110 > seconds anyway). > > Any idea how I can set this up? > > Cheers! > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders > wherever you are > -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web