[squid-users] when using a search box on een website my hole internet explorer freezes incuding earlier opend tabs

[Amos Jeffries]

On 3/06/2015 10:38 p.m., Jeroen Ruijter wrote:
> Dear Amos,
> 
> When we use this website www.rechtspraak.nl and enter a search term in the search box the internet explorer session freezes.
> We are unable to close a window with control + w or with the mouse pressing the cross at the corner.
> 
> I cannot start a new tab, all I can do is start e new instance of internet explorer but the previous session stays open and can still not be closed.
> 

Well, that sounds like your browser literally F**ing itself over.

There is nothing I'm aware of that Squid does that would cause that
extreme result, if there was it qualifies as a remotely executable
security vulnerability since any attacker web server could also do it.


> Only with powershell I can close internet explorer.
> 
> We use squid with authentication against our active directory (LDAP) and I cannot find any leads in the access log file when it happens.
> 
> Any ideas?

It's not Squid. The worst Squid can do is not respond, respond with
wrong content, or with unexpected HTTP header set (that includes
omitting application-expected ones). That is all perfectly normal error
cases, no reason the browser should even blink.

Sometimes browser bugs or broken javascripts can cause blank pages or
hanging tabs. But that is not Squid related, and nowhere near as extreme
as the symptoms you are mentioning.

Amos