[Dxspider-support] Re: QRZ.com lookup

Thu Dec 9 09:31:49 GMT 2004

>> Yes. It worked for last two years.
> 
> Log in as the sysop.  Do "set/debug qrz" then run "sh/qrz n9kt" and look 
> at what is output in the console window.  That should give you some idea 
> of what is going wrong.

Hello!

As I already wrote DXSpider sends wrong URL in GET request to proxy 
server. The URL it requests has $ in it, e.g. http://$www.qrz.com and 
proxy returns an error.

Check (grunf.hn.org:8080 is proxy):
1102584405^GET 
http://$www.qrz.com/p/dxcluster.pl?callsign=s53zo&username=***&password=*** 
HTTP/1.0
1102584407^HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
1102584407^Server: Squid/2.4.STABLE6
1102584407^Mime-Version: 1.0
1102584407^Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 09:26:46 GMT
1102584407^Content-Type: text/html
1102584407^Content-Length: 989
1102584407^Expires: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 09:26:46 GMT
1102584407^X-Squid-Error: ERR_INVALID_URL 0
1102584407^X-Cache: MISS from grunf.hn.org
1102584407^X-Cache-Lookup: NONE from grunf.hn.org:8080
1102584407^Proxy-Connection: close
1102584407^<HTML><HEAD>
1102584407^<TITLE>ERROR: The requested URL could not be retrieved</TITLE>
1102584407^</HEAD><BODY>
1102584407^<H1>ERROR</H1>
1102584407^<H2>The requested URL could not be retrieved</H2>
1102584407^<HR>
1102584407^<P>
1102584407^While trying to retrieve the URL:
1102584407^<A 
HREF="http://$www.qrz.com/p/dxcluster.pl?callsign=s53zo&amp;username=***&amp;password=***">http://$www.qrz.com/p/dxcluster.pl?callsign=s53zo&amp;username=***&amp;password=***</A>
1102584407^<P>
1102584407^The following error was encountered:
1102584407^<UL>
1102584407^<LI>
1102584407^<STRONG>
1102584407^Invalid URL
1102584407^</STRONG>
1102584407^</UL>
1102584407^<P>
1102584407^Some aspect of the requested URL is incorrect.  Possible 
problems:
1102584407^<UL>
1102584407^<LI>Missing or incorrect access protocol (should be 
`http://'' or similar)
1102584407^<LI>Missing hostname
1102584407^<LI>Illegal double-escape in the URL-Path
1102584407^<LI>Illegal character in hostname; underscores are not allowed
1102584407^</UL>
1102584407^<P>Your cache administrator is <A 
HREF="mailto:s53zo at lea.hamradio.si">s53zo at lea.hamradio.si</A>.
1102584407^<br clear="all">
102584407^<hr noshade size=1>
102584407^Generated Thu, 09 Dec 2004 09:26:46 GMT by grunf.hn.org 
(Squid/2.4.STABLE6)
102584407^</BODY></HTML>
102584407^-> D S53ZO qrz.com: S53ZO not found
102584407^-> D S53ZO S53ZO de S50DXS  9-Dec-2004 0926Z >