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

Sure. Underscores are not valid in Hostnames , but you
can bypass by recompiling your squid with the
following option:

#./configure --enable-underscores (By default disabled
in squid)

PS. This option is available in both 2.3 and 2.4

--- Robert Collins <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> > 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 - 14:39:59 MDT