Re: [squid-users] urlParse: Illegal character in hostname

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:58:58 +0000

On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:03:12 -0500, "Winfield Henry" wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have seen lots of references to the above in the mailing list. It is
> stated it is not a problem with squid, rather the clients proxy
technique.
> I am fine with that, but wondering how this may be excluded from the log

> files? The hostname it refers to are some strange encoded characters.
>
> Thanks,
> W

The message is displayed because you chose to enable check_hostnames
feature. These are the security warnings that feature produces.

Where possible please track down how and why these mangled invalid URLs
are appearing and try to get it fixed.

Amos
Received on Wed Feb 09 2011 - 21:59:01 MST

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