[squid-users] Squid 2.7stable7 and ESPN3

[Jason Howlett]

Hello,

I have an Ubuntu 10.0.4 server running Squid 2.7stable7 (I also tried 
Squid 3.0Stable19, but with the same result). I am using the default 
squid.conf file with the exception of adding an acl for my local network 
and allowing access for that list. If I try to go to the following URL: 
http://espn.go.com/espn3/index, Squid gets stuck in some sort of 
infinite loop where it tries to load that page over and over again. This 
happens with both Firefox and Internet Explorer.

I dug into the html source for the espn3 page and found the following 
line in the header: window.location.href = ud.redirect. If I comment out 
that line then everything works correctly when I load my local copy of 
the page with the browser still configured to use the proxy server. I 
also found that if you set ud.redirect to something else 
(www.google.com, for example), then you get redirected there. If squid 
is bypassed, then everything works as expected.

I don't know exactly what is happening under the javascript hood and 
what interaction with squid might be causing the infinite redirect. Any 
help/suggestion is appreciated.

Thanks,
Jason