Re: [squid-users] Strange log messages <=strip(nnumber)>

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Giulio Cervera wrote:

> 2004/01/13 15:41:57| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname
> '<=strip(nnumber)>'

Someone requested

  http://<=strip(nnumber)>/path or similar request.

> 2004/01/13 15:42:09| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname
> '194.213.2.5:8080194.213.2.5'

Another form of malformed requests. Most often seen from applications
trying to read the proxy settings from MSIE but who not quite get it right
on how to use a proxy.. One example of such application is mentioned in
the Squid FAQ on a similar error I think.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Jan 13 2004 - 15:27:35 MST