[squid-users] Empty response from website via proxy

[Dan Charlesworth]

That’s a super helpful analysis, thanks Amos.

Now to see if I track down the site admins 🙃

> On 5 Jul 2016, at 3:04 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3 at treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> On 5/07/2016 4:25 p.m., Dan Charlesworth wrote:
>> This website seems not send back a proper web page if the request comes via a (squid?) proxy.
>> 
>> http://passporttosafety.com.au/
>> 
>> Can anyone tell what might be going wrong here?
>> 
> 
> Happens whenever it sees an X-Forwarded-For header.
> 
> It looks to me like the server or a script in the origin is trying to
> use that header for something (usually tracking the user by IPs) but
> very broken and crashing. A sadly common situation.
> 
> In this case though there is a Varnish proxy in front of it adding a
> "Content-Length: 0" header to 'fix' the problem when the response
> payload fails to appear before the origin connection aborts.
> 
> Amos
> 
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