> > IMHO, resolve libraries accept it, so squid should as well.
>
> And, as Alex said: RFC 1738 (Uniform Resource Locator, Section 3.1 /
> "host") specifies that the host part of a URL is either a fully
> qualified host name, or quad dotted decimal IP representation. Anything
> else is outside specifications, and may behave differently on different
> systems/software.
I was not aware that the spec forced a FQDN or an IP, I thought anything was allowed,
it was up to the resolv library to figure things out. Squid seems to do this
(http://3463618808/ works fine through Squid on my linux box). Perhaps it should
force invalid URLs to be denied by default? (so the "it works on system A but not on
system B" reports can be answered with a "See FAQ #.#")
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Theo Van Dinter UNIX Systems Administrator
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