From 671facc6d972c4cadd674d796d562c4fe4b08e27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miroslav Stampar <miroslav.stampar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:28:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Patch for an Issue #930

---
 lib/core/common.py | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/core/common.py b/lib/core/common.py
index 60578d3a9..0397f6b14 100755
--- a/lib/core/common.py
+++ b/lib/core/common.py
@@ -1225,7 +1225,14 @@ def parseTargetUrl():
     if CUSTOM_INJECTION_MARK_CHAR in conf.url:
         conf.url = conf.url.replace('?', URI_QUESTION_MARKER)
 
-    urlSplit = urlparse.urlsplit(conf.url)
+    try:
+        urlSplit = urlparse.urlsplit(conf.url)
+    except ValueError, ex:
+        errMsg = "invalid URL '%s' has been given ('%s'). " % (conf.url, ex)
+        errMsg += "Please be sure that you don't have any leftover characters (e.g. '[' or ']') "
+        errMsg += "in the hostname part"
+        raise SqlmapGenericException(errMsg)
+
     hostnamePort = urlSplit.netloc.split(":") if not re.search("\[.+\]", urlSplit.netloc) else filter(None, (re.search("\[.+\]", urlSplit.netloc).group(0), re.search("\](:(?P<port>\d+))?", urlSplit.netloc).group("port")))
 
     conf.scheme = urlSplit.scheme.strip().lower() if not conf.forceSSL else "https"