Re: [squid-users] Un-resolved IP

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 04:13:45 +0200

Err.. underscore is perfectly legal in URLs except for in the host name.
The quoted URL does NOT have a underscore in the host name.

The error here is something else.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
Mike Diggins wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Nasir Mahmood wrote:
> 
> > While trying to retrieve the URL:
> > http://www.totaljobs.com/tj3_home/tj5_home.asp
> 
> This URL contains underscores which apparently is a illegal character in
> URL's. There was a discussion about this not too long ago. Did you compile
> Squid (configure) with the --enable-underscores option?
> 
> --enable-underscores    Squid by default rejects any host names with _
>                         in their name to conform with internet standards.
>                         If you disagree with this you may allow _ in
>                         hostnames by using this switch, provided that
>                         the resolver library on the host where Squid runs
>                         does not reject _ in hostnames...
> 
> -Mike
Received on Sat Jun 30 2001 - 20:15:06 MDT

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