Re: [squid-users] Partial error page with IE6

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 20:44:06 +0200

The cause is almost certainly a broken browser.

Try making the error page bigger.

Regards
Henrik

Daniel Barron wrote:
> I have a web server with Apache and squid 2.4 stable 7. It's running
> RH6.2. The apache server is running mod_ssl.
>
> I want to prevent users from accessing the local web server via the proxy
> for various reasons and so I added the following to squid.conf:
>
> deny_info ERR_NOT_OUR_SERVER ourserver
> acl ourserver dst 192.168.42.2/32
> http_access deny ourserver
>
> I created a custom error page to explain to the users that their proxy
> settings are wrong and to add the ip/hostname of the web server to their
> 'no proxy on' settings in their browsers.
>
> This works perfectly for the people using browsers such as Netscape and
> Oregano, but not IE 6. I don't know if IE5 has the problem as we only have
> IE6.
>
> If a user has 'use same proxy for all protocols' ticked and they don't have
> the ip of the server in the 'don't proxy for' and they are accessing the
> web server via SSL (port 443) then only part of the error page displays.
> If they access port 80 then there is no problem but part of the site needs
> to be accessed via SSL for security reasons.
>
> If I do a 'view source' then only half the HTML is shown. The error page
> is only a couple of K.
>
> I can't tell the users to not use IE as this is the real world and
> unfortunately people use IE.
>
> What is the cause of the problem? How do I solve it?
Received on Wed Aug 28 2002 - 12:44:13 MDT

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