Why does squid returns header error with ssl_bump configuration?

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Issue

  • Why does squid returns header error with ssl_bump configuration? Disabling ssl-bump does not show the error.
    For example, the particular site returns following header error with ssl-bump feature.

    26 2015/02/03 12:56:03 kid1| ctx: enter level  0: 'https://example.com/crossdomain.xml'
         27 2015/02/03 12:56:03 kid1| WARNING: HTTP header contains NULL characters {Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 03:57:20 GMT
         28 X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
         29 X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
         30 X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
         31 Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
         32 Last-Modified: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 01:04:28 GMT
         33 Accept-Ranges: bytes
         34 Vary: Accept-Encoding
         35 Content-Encoding: gzip
         36 Content-Length: 252
         37 Content-Type: application/xml
         38 Age: 0
         39 Connection: keep-alive
         40 Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains}
         41 NULL <--- NULL is HERE
         42 {Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 03:57:20 GMT
         43 X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
         44 X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
         45 X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
         46 Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
         47 Last-Modified: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 01:04:28 GMT
         48 Accept-Ranges: bytes
         49 Vary: Accept-Encoding
         50 Content-Encoding: gzip
         51 Content-Length: 252
         52 Content-Type: application/xml
         53 Age: 0
         54 Connection: keep-alive
         55 Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains
         56 2015/02/03 12:56:03 kid1| ctx: exit level  0
         57 2015/02/03 12:56:03 kid1| WARNING: HTTP: Invalid Response: Bad header encountered from https://example.com/crossdomain.xml AKA example.com/crossdomain.xml
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • squid with ssl-bump configuration

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