Re: [squid-users] Unsupported method in request '_'

donovan jeffrey j wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I'm seeing this error in cache.log
>
> 2009/08/13 09:31:30| clientParseRequestMethod: Unsupported method in
> request '_'
>
> I thought i compiled with enable underscores. So im not sure what is
> causing this error. Im seeing it in 3.0 stable 18 &16

--enable-underscores affects whether URLs which violate HTTP standards
and contain _ in the domain name are accepted and passed around.

METHOD being an underscore may mean some random binary byte was received
at the start of the request. We replace them in the log with underscores
to prevent bad things happening when the logs are viewed.

>
> root# squid -v
> Squid Cache: Version 3.0.STABLE18
> configure options: '--enable-async-io' '--enable-icmp'
> '--enable-delay-pools' '--disable-htcp' '--enable-ssl'
> '--enable-ipfw-transparent' '--enable-snmp' '--enable-underscores'
> '--enable-basic-auth-helpers=NCSA,LDAP'
>
> thanks.
>

Amos

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