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What does the message “URL security(1): ERROR: Found percent in URL…DANGER… rejecting request” mean?

April 26, 2017Error mean message percent rejecting request URL

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What does the message “URL security(1): ERROR: Found percent in URL…DANGER… rejecting request” mean?

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A. It means that ntop received a request with a percent sign (%) in it, often used as part of Unicode exploits against various web servers. Since there is no situation where ntop should process this, we reject it. URLsecurity in http.c is the place where these tests occur.