Re: [squid-users] Squid and YahooMail

it's just redirecting to login.yahoo.com again... but with a long URL, I
 will do some more digging and get you a more specific answer.

I will also check, but I'm pretty sure we are at the latest available
squid 2.7 BSD port. I will post back more accurate details.

Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:17:54 -0400, Rick Chisholm <rchisholm_at_parallel42.ca>
> wrote:
>> In this config - squid is using it's own dnsservers setting in
>> squid.conf in order to avoid the local resolver setting on the OS. We
>> are essentially using squid to avoid openDNS for a particular group at
>> work who need access to things we usually block.
>>
>> The Yahoo login page immediately redirects to some other, much longer
>> URL and that where Squid seems to run into trouble. Using dig to test
>> the same resolvers that Squid is using does not return an error when
>> querying for login.yahoo.com - squid also functions perfectly fine with
>> other login pages like hotmail, gmail etc. It seems to be just Yahoo.
>
> And the domain to which its redirecting?
>
> It may be a matter of the URL vs Squid release. Do try latest release of
> the version you are currently using, there are both DNS and URL-length
> fixes in the more current ones.
>
> Amos
>
>> Amos Jeffries wrote:
>>> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:01:40 -0400, Rick Chisholm
>>> <rchisholm_at_parallel42.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>>> what's up with Squid and https://login.yahoo.com?
>>>>
>>>> Our marketing dept. at work needs access to Yahoo Analytics, but they
>>>> have to login via Yahoo! regular login. Squid complains about a DNS
>>>> resolution issue but names the link as
>>>>
>>>> http://443
>>>>
>>>> It's quite odd.
>>> The strange link is due to some older Squid (3.x?) not generating the
>>> error
>>> page link correctly for HTTPS.
>>>
>>> The problem is still Squid being unable to perform DNS lookups or
> getting
>>> no results back for the domain.
>>> Try a newer release if you can and figure out why its not getting any
> DNS
>>> results back from the resolver.
>>>
>>> Amos
>>>
>

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