Re: problems with nwfusion.com

On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 01:35:11PM -0600, Fernando Medina Jr. wrote:
> I run Squid 2.2Stable4 on RH Linux 6.0. It has been running for several
> months with no problems. Today I tried accessing:
> http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/0306helpdesk.html and I got a
> squid error at top of page:
>
> The requested URL could not be retrieved
>
> While trying to retrieve the URL:
> http://ad.doubleclick.net/adl/idg.nwfusion.com/;loc=rm;ord= 8141628

I guess Doubleclick has started putting out invalid URLs, on top of
their other sins. ;-)
 
> The following error was encountered:
>
> Invalid URL
>
> Some aspect of the requested URL is incorrect. Possible problems:
>
> Missing or incorrect access protocol (should be `http://'' or
> similar)
> Missing hostname
> Illegal double-escape in the URL-Path
> Illegal character in hostname; underscores are not allowed

It's the space in the URL. (Could this get added to the list of
possible problems in the error page?)

> Does this error occur without Proxy use? what can I do? thanks.

See the uri_whitespace settings in squid.conf. You can make Squid
ignore the fact that spaces in the URL are invalid.

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