I have recently been unable to browse support.microsoft.com through our squid proxy servers.
Investigation into the issue leads me to believe that Microsoft is responding with gzip transfer encoding. Firefox Reports a content encoding error: Content Encoding Error The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression. Internet Explorer Reports that I am not connected to the internet or the web server is not responding. I was able to find a work around for IE, by un-checking the use http 1.1 options under the advanced tab. We have 2 proxy servers configured, one is running FreeBSD 5.4 with Squid-2.5.STABLE13, the other is running FreeBSD 6.2 with Squid-2.6-STABLE9. Both have the same problem, after some reading, I found that this issue should have been fixed in Squid-2.6+ and Squid-3.1+. Since 3.1 is not out in production state yet, 2.6 seems to be the way to go, is STABLE9 not new enough to have the fix in it? I already have 3.0 compiled and was ready to put it in place, but I have no problem switching to the latest version of 2.6 if that will fix this problem. Has anyone else ran into this issue, and found a solution to the problem? Thanks, Dean Weimer Network Administrator Orscheln Management Co
