Microsoft break support.microsoft.com for Squid users

It seems that Microsoft have managed to break their support site for anyone behind a Squid proxy server. Danny has posted a fix for this on his website, though for newer version of squid a slightly different approach is required.

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# Fix support.microsoft.com
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acl fixSupportMicrosoft dstdomain support.microsoft.com
reply_header_access Accept-Encoding deny fixSupportMicrosoft
request_header_access Accept-Encoding deny fixSupportMicrosoft

What you’re doing there is preventing the Microsoft support site from gzip’ing their content.

Comments

• Danny says:

  Thanks for the update Dave.

  Reply
• support.microsoft.com not working behind Squid says:

  […] versions of squid need a different approach as demonstrated by Dave over at davehope.co.uk These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web […]

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• Rhys says:

  Thank you for the information. Out of interest, when you say newer version is this fix valid from 3.0 onwards?

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• Dave says:

  Rhys,

  It is indeed. Worked a treat on our Squid 3.0.PRE5 proxy.

  Cheers,

  Dave

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• AnnoyedTech says:

  Worked a charm, your a legend!

  Reply
• Sammy Mitchell says:

  Thanks for the info. Is always good to learn. Regards

  Reply

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