[squid-users] Google Chrome reports "Too many redirects" on ssl-dumped connections with LA Times News Website

[Jeffrey Merkey]

On 11/3/17, Jeffrey Merkey <jeffmerkey at gmail.com> wrote:
> This error is extremely hard to reproduce, and I found it can be
> cleared by restarting squid, which seems to make it go away.   It
> seems to take several hours of non-stop proxy use then once the error
> occurs the we browser reports "too many redirects" and certificate
> errors.
>
> Doing a restart on Centos 7 clears it:
>
> # systemctl restart squid
>
> The log shows some sort of "refresh unmodified state before it happens:
>
> 1509690588.252    167 127.0.0.1 TAG_NONE/200 0 CONNECT
> events.bouncex.net:443 - HIER_DIRECT/35.190.62.200 -
> 1509690588.272    210 127.0.0.1 TAG_NONE/200 0 CONNECT
> analytics.twitter.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/199.59.149.200 -
> 1509690588.280     62 127.0.0.1 TCP_REFRESH_UNMODIFIED/200 38412 GET
> http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-vegas-shooting-sheriff-20171102-story.html
> - HIER_DIRECT/104.120.143.198 text/html      <================== error
> is here
> 1509690588.356    220 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/200 960 GET
> https://partners.tremorhub.com/syncnoad? - HIER_DIRECT/34.228.123.38
> text/xml
> 1509690588.366    304 127.0.0.1 TAG_NONE/200 0 CONNECT
> geo.moatads.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/52.21.172.68 -
> 1509690588.374    303 127.0.0.1 TAG_NONE/200 0 CONNECT
> rtr.innovid.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/13.58.208.14 -
> 1509690588.377     33 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/200 498 GET
> https://tribpubdfp745347008913.s.moatpixel.com/pixel.gif? - HIER_
>
> If there are particulars and I attempt to recreate this problem are
> there any specific logging parms or settings that would help you
> understand this particular error or shed some light on it that I could
> set on my end.
>
> Jeff
>

One important thing I failed to mention is that other websites seem to
work fine at fetching pages, it seems to affect cached webpages that
seem to be the problem.  What specific trace functions can I enable to
help run down this issue and narrow it down to a root cause?

Jeff