Re: Problem with access lists

"Russel H. Ingram" wrote:
>
> We run squid as our proxy here at my library for the public terminals. A
> lot of what those terminals get used for is to check email from web-based
> email accounts like hotmail and snap. Recently one of the users that has
> snap mail complained that he got an error message every time he tried to
> access email. Here is the error message:
>
> ERROR
>
> The requested URL could not be retrieved
> ========================================
>
> While trying to retrieve the URL:
> http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/emailcom.snap.com/snap.ISERROR;sz=100x290;;type=brick1;
> num=12345;abr=!ie;
>
> The following error was encountered:
>
> - Invalid URL
>
> Some aspect of the requested URL is incorrect. Possible problems:
>
> - Missing or incorrect access protocol (should be 'http://" or similar)
> - Missing hostname
> - Illegal double-escape in the URL-Path
> - Illegal character in hostname; underscores are not allowed
>
> I can't seem to find an acl that will allow this address through. I have
> even tried leaving the proxy wide open with:
>
> acl allsrc src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
> acl alldst dst 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
> http_access allow allsrc
> http_access allow alldst
> icp_access allow allsrc
> miss_access allow allsrc
>
> That didn't work either. Has anyone else experienced this with snap.com
> and, more importantly, does anyone have a solution?

There's unencoded whitespace in the url.

D
Received on Mon Jul 05 1999 - 18:39:58 MDT