Hm, your issue seems to be similar to this one, IE-specific, too: http://superuser.com/questions/560647/ie10-unexpectedly-sends-a-head-request-for-pdf-what-has-changed -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/Squid-2-7-STABLE5-hangs-with-HEAD-request-in-LOG-tp4664219p4664255.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.