diff --git a/linkcheck/HttpUrlData.py b/linkcheck/HttpUrlData.py
index 813891f5..0c115a54 100644
--- a/linkcheck/HttpUrlData.py
+++ b/linkcheck/HttpUrlData.py
@@ -151,8 +151,8 @@ class HttpUrlData(UrlData):
     def _getHttpRequest(self, method="HEAD"):
         "Put request and return (status code, status text, mime object)"
         if self.proxy:
-            Config.debug("DEBUG: using proxy "+self.proxy+"\n")
             host = self.proxy+":"+`self.proxyport`
+            Config.debug("DEBUG: using proxy %s\n" % host)
         else:
             host = self.urlTuple[1]
         if self.urlConnection:
diff --git a/linkcheckerrc b/linkcheckerrc
index 45154b73..47b31aa1 100644
--- a/linkcheckerrc
+++ b/linkcheckerrc
@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@
 # separately if its strict or not. See the [filtering] section
 #strict=0
 # proxy parameters
-#proxy=www-proxy.uni-sb.de
-#proxyport=3128
+#proxy = www-proxy.uni-sb.de
+#proxyport = 3128
 # supply a regular expression for which warnings are printed if found
 # in any HTML files.
 #warningregex="Request failed"
@@ -99,12 +99,12 @@
 # what you wanted.
 [filtering]
 # everything with 'lconline' in the URL name is extern
-extern1=lconline 0
+# extern1=lconline 0
 # everything with 'bookmark' in the URL name is extern and we make
 # no network connection to such URLs (strict)
-extern2=bookmark 1
+# extern2=bookmark 1
 # links to our domain are intern
-internlinks=calvinsplayground\.de
+# internlinks=calvinsplayground\.de
 #allowdeny=0
 
 # You can provide different user/password pairs for different link types.
diff --git a/test/base1.html b/test/base1.html
index bcaff8c7..6ab2e9ac 100644
--- a/test/base1.html
+++ b/test/base1.html
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 <!-- base testing -->
 
 <base target="_top">
+<META HTTP-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.calvinandhobbes.com/">
 <a href
 =
 "file:/etc">
\ No newline at end of file