A patch for this is available from http://hem.passagen.se/hno/squid/
The problem with your fix is that it invalidates the hack to support
broken CGI scripts ("persistent_client_posts off" in squid.conf).
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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker
Doug Nazar wrote:
>
> This has been bugging me for a little while and I finally got
> around to tracking it down. When doing any POST operation, with a
> null body, squid will just timeout. I'm using Mozilla/3 which
> squid automatically disables proxy_keepalive for which means it
> fails the following test
>
> pump.c: around line 165