Are you sure that it's IE 6 trying port 80 or might it be some other little program on the machine that ignores proxy settings? (e.g. spyware program/windows update/messenger/etc)
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 12:21, Rick Matthews wrote: > I have a Windows XP box running IE 6.0.2800 and it is configured to > use my squid proxy at 192.168.44.1:3128. Everything appears to work > fine from a user perspective. > > I am blocking outbound port 80 at my firewall and whenever this PC > is in use I see blocked port 80 attempts. I spent about 15 minutes > this morning doing general browsing on that PC, and then checked the > firewall log. I was surprised to find a large number of port 80 > entries. There were only about 12 ip addresses, but all of them > had multiple entries (50+). > > I looked in squid's access.log and quickly found 4 or 5 of the > ip addresses listed for sites that I visited. Is it possible > that while trying to load a page, IE would send most of the links > using the proxy and send a few of them via port 80? That's how it > looks to me. While I was browsing I did not notice red "x's" or > other indications that items had not been loaded. Maybe it > tried direct and then fell back to the proxy? (I'm not using > a proxy.pac file; the proxy address and port has been entered.) > > I had tcpdump running at the time (looking for something else) > so I have the requests captured, but looking at them doesn't > do anything for me. > > As I was researching this I found that my squid version (2.4.STABLE6) > is a little dated; could that have anything to do with this issue? > > Thanks in advance for your help! > > Rick
