Re: [squid-users] Invalid URL errors on valid URLs

* On 20/11/05 17:27 -0600, WinSE wrote:
>
> The url I used was: http://www.livejournal.com/
> This url works fine without using squid.
>
> The error I recieved was:
>
> ERROR
> The requested URL could not be retrieved
>
> While trying to retrieve the URL: /
>
> 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
>
> Your cache administrator is root.
> Generated Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:43:14 GMT by WinSE.ath.cx (squid/2.5.STABLE12)
>
>
> I have had this error on many other sites and pages. What can I do to fix
> this issue? I assume it is some misconfiguration on my part, but I am
> unable to determine what I did wrong and how to fix it.

This site works fine for me with same version of Squid.
What does your squid.conf look like?
What is the output of `squid -v`?

-Wash

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