RE: [squid-users] "_" (underline) in website names

I believe you have to specify "--enable-underscores" when you compile Squid
to fix this......

Peace....

Tom
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                    "Robert Collins"
                    <robert.collins@itdoma To: "LA Walsh" <law@sgi.com>, <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
                    in.com.au> cc:
                                                  Subject: RE: [squid-users] "_" (underline) in website names
                    05/17/01 10:50 PM
                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                             

Quoting from the squid error page:

Illegal character in hostname; underscores are not allowed

underscores are not valid in hostnames.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: LA Walsh [mailto:law@sgi.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 3:52 PM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] "_" (underline) in website names
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>
> Hi, new subscriber and recently new user. I ran into an interesting
> situation that would seem to be a bug:
>
> Squid seems to care about and block access to sites containing
> the underscore character. Is there any reason squid should care
> about the site name I enter? dnslookup on the site works. I'm
> running version 2.3 -- perhaps this is fixed in 2.4?
>
> Thanks,
> -linda
>
>
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Received on Fri May 18 2001 - 10:54:00 MDT