Known Issues

6653507 

If Monitor Current Activity Statistics/Profiling is set to ON, it cannot be turned OFF from the user's interface 

6212701 

Conflicting error message is displayed when server instance fails to start. 

The chances of occurrence of this conflicting error message is minimal as the chances of the administration interface writing wrong information in the configuration file is minimal. It can only occur if the user manually writes wrong information into the configuration file.  

6231297 

The Restart Required link disappears if changes are made to the SOCKS configuration and the Proxy Server is restarted instead of the SOCKS Server. 

6484502 

Proxy Server administration interface is not localized. 

6509535 

Daylight Savings Time (DST) will start in USA from the 2nd Sunday of March and end on the 1st Sunday of November. This will impact the date and time rules of the operating system and JRE.  

In the standalone version of proxy server, JRE version compatible with 2007 DST changes is bundled with the installer. However, you need to address the impact on the date and time rules of the operating system by installing the appropriate Operating System patches as explained in step 1 of the Workaround. 

For the JavaES 5 installation of proxy server, you need to install the Operating System patches and also the compatible version of JRE . Follow steps 1 and 2 of the Workaround. 

Workaround

1. Download and use the appropriate operating system patches. You can download the Solaris patches from http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102775-1.

   For other platforms, download similar DST compatible patches from the Operating System vendor's web site.

2. For Solaris, Windows, and Linux, run proxy server with JRE 1.4.2_13. For HP-UX, run proxy server with JRE 1.4.2.12.

6558027 

On Windows, server identifier with multibyte characters causes server-side createInstance.exe error.

6867774 

The administration server fails to start up when a proxy installation that uses a custom JDK configuration is upgraded to a service pack version that requires a newer JDK version. After the upgrade, the JDK configuration must be manually modified to point to either the bundled JDK or a custom JDK of the required version. 

6909558 

Backslashes should be used in LDAP uids only to escape special characters. The ldap sdk used by the Proxy server will remove backslashes from the uid before sending the same to the directory server. This can possibly lead to a situation where the authentication fails where it should succeed (because the uid, with backslashes stripped, finds no match in the directory server), or even succeeds where it should fail (because the uid, with backslashes stripped, finds a match in the directory server).

6888170 

Upgrade fails on RHEL4 when the specified target directory name contains a trailing slash.

6654514 

Proxy-Agent header displays the original header for request type 504. 

6229823 

When a new partition is added a default section s0.0 is also created irrespective of the partition size. Warning messages are logged in the errors file. 

Workaround

Use the cbuild utility to add the new partition or delete the s0.0 folder under the new cache partition, and restart the proxy server.

The error messages can be ignored. 

6619620 

Doc RFE: Proxy Server should not be used with Network Cache Accelerator (NCA). 

When the Proxy Server 4.0.8 is used with NCA, a browser repeatedly prompts for the User ID and password. This happens because NCA does not support Proxy-specific headers like Proxy-authorization.

Workaround

Do not select NCA in the Proxy Listen Socket setting. 

6205683 

Windows console installation fails. 

6255325 

The installer throws an exception and the installation fails on Linux if the user installs the Proxy Server as a non-root user and the /var/opt/sun/install directory does not exist.

6353576 

Silent upgrade installation does not work. 

6587776 

Proxy Server from Java ES 5 on Windows XP displays system error 1067. 

6756659 

Proxy Server 4.0.9 can be installed on OpenSolaris by using the GUI installer only if the --javahome option of the setup command is used to specify a JDK 1.6 location.

6607551 

On Windows, uninstalling the patch does not change the Proxy Server version to the previous version number. 

Reverting the patch through Uninstaller script does not change the service description name to the previous Proxy Server version due to RenameService.exe utility limitations. Therefore, even after uninstalling the patch, the service description shows the latest Proxy version instead of the previous version number.

6233080 

The Disable Proxying option does not work for the URL with multibyte data (URL encoded) when routing is set through another proxy server. 

6233090 

A URL with multibyte data (URL encoded) cannot be mapped. 

6253844 

Proxy server online help does not support the language zh-cn. 

6297168 

Starting the server in a different system encoding causes any errors returned by the system in that particular system encoding to be logged in the error log. When viewed through the Administration server, the error log might have characters in system encoding that do not display properly. 

Workaround

Change the browser encoding to match the OS locale so that the error log can be properly viewed through the administration interface. But this will be needed every time you move to other pages and then return to View Error Log again. 

6300080 

Proxy server's content rewriting function is inconsistent.  

6526476 and 6526488 

In a standalone installation of proxy server on HP-UX, the installation in GUI mode results in the display of corrupted Japanese characters (ID no. 6526476). If the installation is continued, it results in error while creating an instance (ID no. 6526488).  

Workaround

You can use either of the following workarounds: 

• Use the CLI mode of installation for Japanese locale on HP-UX.

• Continue the installation even with the corrupted display of characters. When the installer fails to create an instance, log in to the administration interface and create an instance.

6550995 

The following error message is not localized for all the locales: 

HTTP7774: received extraneous data following response

6779070 

The Proxy Server OLH has broken links for Terms of Use.

6253844 

The set language option in the Proxy Server OLH does not support the language zh-cn.

6828246 

The Korean characters are not displayed in the Proxy Server installer on RHEL 5.2. 

6245453 

The Quench Updates feature is shown in the GUI and documented for the Server Manager > SOCKS > Configure SOCKS v5 page, but the feature is not implemented. 

6263389 

No error is reported when two instances of SOCKS are started using the same port on Windows. 

6285791 

SOCKS server start command line issue for JavaES 4 is resolved in this release, but existing instances created in JavaES 4 installation will have the problem even after upgrading to the latest 4.0.3 patches. The new instances created after upgrade will not have this problem. This problem is not there in stand-alone installation of Proxy Server.

6957135 

Documentation of the magnus.conf directives added in Proxy Server 4.0.12 is missing from Chapter 3, Syntax and Use of the magnus.conf File, in Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server 4.0.14 Configuration File Reference.

Workaround

See the documentation for these directives in Information About New Directives in the magnus.conf File.