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Identifying the source of Invalid-request (squid 3) -> error:transaction-end-before-headers (Squid 4)

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Greetings!

 

I am running a transparent proxy for plain http traffic, memory caching only, I have something like 500 devices that are using the proxy at any given time over a satellite and I am averaging in the range of 2,000 requests per minute across the proxy (again, no SSL bump, I do not control the devices at all).  I am using 3.5.22 compiled from sources (if it matters).  I have been seeing lines in my access log like the following:

 

1476535967.570      0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx TAG_NONE/400 4538 NONE error:invalid-request - HIER_NONE/- text/html

 

After some digging on this list I began to suspect websockets or other non-http traffic coming across port 80.  After additional reading, and as much as anything to test the hypothesis, I decided to try squid 4.0.15 with on-unsupported-protocol.  I get what I am guessing to be the same result with new error text around it:

 

1476536369.742      0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx NONE/000 0 NONE error:transaction-end-before-headers - HIER_NONE/- -

 

An interesting point to interject here is that my “Hits as % bytes sent” in 3.5.x has always been in the 2 to 5% range, but there are periods (sometimes long ones) where the inbound traffic to squid is much higher than the outbound.  When I switch to 4.0.x, I am now running about -27% (note, negative twenty-seven) as bytes, which makes me suspect it is logging the higher inbound than outbound now.  So, apparently, this unsupported protocol is triggering some sort of large download, but does not end up going to the client.  Obviously, this is not good, so I’m digging deeper and I’d appreciate any pointers that come to mind.

 

I would like to know a couple things, first: is there some debugging level other than ALL,9 that might give me some illumination?  ALL,9 generates about 15 MB of debug log per second at my current load level, and these errors aren’t real frequent, so I end up with ~ 400 MB of text that needs to be sifted through.  As you can imagine, that can be a bit brutal.  If I could even identify the other end point, I would at least be able to figure out if this is Apple, Microsoft, Android, something else, and perhaps get closer to being able to replicate the error.  Thoughts would be appreciated.  In case its relevant, my compile options were:

 

./configure --prefix=/usr   --localstatedir=/var   --libexecdir=/usr/lib/squid    --srcdir=.   --datadir=/usr/share/squid   --sysconfdir=/etc/squid   --with-default-user=proxy   --with-logdir=/var/log   --with-pidfile=/var/run/squid.pid --enable-linux-netfilter  --enable-cache-digests --enable-storeio=ufs,aufs,diskd,rock  --enable-async-io=30 --enable-http-violations --enable-zph-qos --with-netfilter-conntrack --with-filedescriptors=65536 --with-large-files

 

Note that, a lot of those are based on a very long and tedious guess-and-check session last year, and some of them probably are totally irrelevant to my setup (I’m looking at you --enable-http-violations and --enable-zph-qos) but hey, what is life without the unnecessary noise from lazily copy-and-pasting old compile lines.

 

My configuration, edited to eliminate my numerous comments and hashed out lines of experiments and to hide network identifiers, is pasted below. 

 

///BEGIN /etc/squid/squid.conf

workers 4

 

acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8     # RFC1918 possible internal network

acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12  # RFC1918 possible internal network

acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network

 

acl localnet src fc00::/7       # RFC 4193 local private network range

acl localnet src fe80::/10      # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines

 

acl SSL_ports port 443

acl Safe_ports port 80          # http

acl Safe_ports port 21          # ftp

acl Safe_ports port 443         # https

acl Safe_ports port 70          # gopher

acl Safe_ports port 210         # wais

acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535  # unregistered ports

acl Safe_ports port 280         # http-mgmt

acl Safe_ports port 488         # gss-http

acl Safe_ports port 591         # filemaker

acl Safe_ports port 777         # multiling http

acl CONNECT method CONNECT

 

#Note that I added this line when testing Squid-4, it is commented out when running Squid-3

on_unsupported_protocol tunnel all

 

http_access allow localnet

http_access allow localhost

 

http_access deny !Safe_ports

http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_Ports

 

# And finally deny all other access to this proxy

http_access deny all

 

http_port 3128

http_port 3129 tproxy

 

visible_hostname squid-proxy.mydomain.tld

 

acl updatesites dstdom_regex "/etc/squid/updatesites.txt"

 

icp_port 3130

htcp_port 4827

icp_access allow localnet

icp_access deny all

 

#Testing QoS Marks

qos_flows tos local-hit=0x30

qos_flows mark local-hit=0x30

qos_flows mark miss=0x0

 

maximum_object_size 800 MB updatesites

maximum_object_size 80 MB !updatesites

range_offset_limit 0

quick_abort_min 0 KB

 

store_id_program /usr/lib/squid/storeid_file_rewrite /etc/squid/storeid_rewrite.conf

store_id_children 10 startup=3 idle=1 concurrency=0

 

cache_mem 16384 MB

maximum_object_size_in_memory 8 MB

 

cache_swap_low 90

cache_swap_high 95

 

cache_store_log daemon:/var/log/squid/store.log

access_log daemon:/var/log/squid/access.log squid

cache_log /var/log/squid/cache.log

logfile_rotate 40

max_open_disk_fds 64000

 

refresh_pattern ^ftp:           1440    20%     10080

refresh_pattern ^gopher:        1440    0%      1440

refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0     0%      0

refresh_pattern .               0       20%     4320

 

cache_mgr someone@xxxxxxxxxxx

cache_effective_user proxy

cache_effective_group proxy

///END /etc/squid/squid.conf

 

So, I have a few questions I guess: 

(1)    For one thing, what are the implications of “on_unsupported_protocol tunnel all”?  I did it as a quick attempt to see if that had any new and interesting impacts, but is it safe-ish?  Am I letting the bad-guys come pouring through with that?

(2)    What debug levels should I be thinking about to try and figure out what is happening.  Seems like we won’t get very far without identifying what is throwing that error.

(3)    Has anyone else seen this?  Right now, for example (after 10 minutes of typing an email) I’m actually running -61% Hits as Bytes!  (Negative!)  Ouch!

 

Thanks!

 

--Jester

 

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