Hello, My friends' college has provided them with internet access in their hostel rooms. The proxy server located in the college runs Red Hat 7.3 & Squid as the proxy server. Although it works fine, it has two very serious problems: 1. It doesn't allow browsing any site with an underscore (_) in the URL. 2. Although the download speed is blazingly fast (around 60 Kbps), the messenger programs like Yahoo! & MSN run EXTREMELY slow & GAIM doesn't run at all. I suspect there is some problem in configuring the protocols supported by Squid. What can be the underlying problem ? Their NetAdmin as usual is totally oblivious about the whole thing.

Please enlighten ...

B.Ghose

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