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

This is caused by a buggy advertisment libary using HTTP to download the
new adverts, not actually a Squid problem..

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
Uwe Poliak wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have the same problem with all of my squid installations.
> 
> The following is an excerpt from the access-log-file:
> 
> xx - - [09/Apr/2001:17:40:56 +0200] "GET
> http://mshias04:9091mshias04:9091 HTTP/0.0" 400 1191 NONE:NONE
> xx - - [09/Apr/2001:17:40:56 +0200] "GET
> http://mshias04:9091mshias04:9091 HTTP/0.0" 400 1191 NONE:NONE
> xx - - [09/Apr/2001:17:40:56 +0200] "GET
> /scripts/cms/CmsInit.ASP?ID=1&D2=Q`o@Cs????@??&AW=167&LV=2045&CU=31166414
> HTTP/0.0" 400 1304 NONE:NONE
> xx - - [09/Apr/2001:17:41:06 +0200] "GET
> http://mshias04:9091mshias04:9091 HTTP/0.0" 400 1191 NONE:NONE
> xx - - [09/Apr/2001:17:41:06 +0200] "GET
> http://mshias04:9091mshias04:9091 HTTP/0.0" 400 1191 NONE:NONE
> xx - - [09/Apr/2001:17:41:06 +0200] "GET
> /scripts/cms/CmsInit.ASP?ID=1&D2=Q`o@Cs????@??&AW=167&LV=2045&CU=31176479
> HTTP/0.0" 400 1304 NONE:NONE
> 
> This happens all 10 seconds, when the computer with the ip xx is online.
> The program, which generates those requests is Babylon, the online
> translator...
> When Babylon is stopped, no more requests like those are generated.
> 
> It sends requests to an unknown server, using the proxy-settings of IE.
> Squid replies with the error code "Invalid URL => Missing Hostname".
> 
> At the moment, we don't have a workaround except stopping Babylon....
> 
> cu
> Uwe Poliak
> Online Services
> Medien System Haus Stuttgart
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
> > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 11:02 AM
> > To: ssdd sdsds; squid-users@squid-cache.org
> > Subject: Re: [squid-users] Illegal character in hostname!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "ssdd sdsds" <w1mirza74@yahoo.com>
> > To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 9:01 PM
> > Subject: [squid-users] Illegal character in hostname!
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > We r getting continueous errors in cache log:
> > > urlParse: Illegal character in hostname" our proxy
> > > address"
> > > and they r comming after every 3-5 secs.
> > > There is no illegal, underscore, charector in the
> > > address.
> > >  any one hv idea??
> > >
> > > thanx in advance
> > >
> >
> >
> > Without any example, no.
> >
> > Rob
> >