From 02d20ccd13afc378a169f309ef92720264756718 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miroslav Stampar <miroslav.stampar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 08:48:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Patch for an Issue #1078

---
 lib/core/option.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/core/option.py b/lib/core/option.py
index c04e6d3fe..2db7d3d78 100644
--- a/lib/core/option.py
+++ b/lib/core/option.py
@@ -1079,7 +1079,12 @@ def _setHTTPProxy():
     debugMsg = "setting the HTTP/SOCKS proxy for all HTTP requests"
     logger.debug(debugMsg)
 
-    _ = urlparse.urlsplit(conf.proxy)
+    try:
+        _ = urlparse.urlsplit(conf.proxy)
+    except Exception, ex:
+        errMsg = "invalid proxy address '%s' ('%s')" % (conf.proxy, ex)
+        raise SqlmapSyntaxException, errMsg
+
     hostnamePort = _.netloc.split(":")
 
     scheme = _.scheme.upper()