ASG V8 Support–Problems and Work Arounds
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 2:12PM
Bob Appleby in Astaro, Hardware, How To, Press Release, Router, Software

PR:Open issues with 8.2 and 8.201

Article Number: AKB001197

They plan to fix them version 8.202. This list can also be found at http://www.astaro.com/lists/Known_Issues-ASG-V8.txt.

ID18567 8.200 "MIME blocking inspects HTTP body" is broken
Description: By enabling "MIME blocking inspects HTTP body" in the HTTP proxy, there might be some cases where the recognition of the MIME type fails and files cannot be downloaded.
Workaround:
Fixed in: 8.202

ID18653 8.200 If the HTTPs-Proxy is enabled, login to some websites may result in "Internal server error"
Description: By using the HTTPs-Proxy, some websites requiring authentication might not be reachable. This happens on websites using HTTP keepalives using POST requests.
Workaround:
Fixed in: 8.202

ID18769 8.200 If virus scanning of a website failed, no error message is shown in the browser.
Description: If virus scanning of a website failed, no error message is shown in the browser. Instead, the user gets a blank page.
Workaround:
Fixed in: 8.202

ID18695 8.200 Policy routing in combination with Application Control may cause problems
Description: Policy routing in combination with Application Control may cause problems. This is caused by wrong connection handling.
Workaround: Disable Application Control.
Fixed in: 8.202

ID18604 8.200 Web Application Firewall mixes backend websites
Description: In case multiple virtual web servers exist with exactly the same settings but listening on different interfaces, the WebAppication Firewall mixes the real web server sites. This only happens, if the first entry in the domain list is the same for all involved virtual web servers.
Workaround: Make sure that each virtual web server's first domain name is unique.
Fixed in: 8.202

This article can be found under "https://support.astaro.com/support/index.php/Open_issues_with_8_2_and_8_201"

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