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[!] copy-pasting illegal (non-console) quote characters from

Error message

[!] copy-pasting illegal (non-console) quote characters from Internet is illegal (%s)

What it means

Error "[!] copy-pasting illegal (non-console) quote characters from Internet is illegal (%s)" thrown in sqlmapproject/sqlmap.

Source

Thrown at lib/parse/cmdline.py:1115

        longSwitches = set(re.findall(r"\-\-([^= ]+?)\s", parser.format_help()))

        for i in xrange(len(argv)):
            # Reference: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-
            argv[i] = re.sub(u"\\A(\u2010|\u2013|\u2212|\u2014|\u4e00|\u1680|\uFE63|\uFF0D)+", lambda match: '-' * len(match.group(0)), argv[i])

            # Reference: https://unicode-table.com/en/sets/quotation-marks/
            argv[i] = argv[i].strip(u"\u00AB\u2039\u00BB\u203A\u201E\u201C\u201F\u201D\u2019\u275D\u275E\u276E\u276F\u2E42\u301D\u301E\u301F\uFF02\u201A\u2018\u201B\u275B\u275C")

            if argv[i] == "-hh":
                argv[i] = "-h"
            elif i == 1 and re.search(r"\A(http|www\.|\w[\w.-]+\.\w{2,})", argv[i]) is not None:
                argv[i] = "--url=%s" % argv[i]
            elif len(argv[i]) > 1 and all(ord(_) in xrange(0x2018, 0x2020) for _ in ((argv[i].split('=', 1)[-1].strip() or ' ')[0], argv[i][-1])):
                dataToStdout("[!] copy-pasting illegal (non-console) quote characters from Internet is illegal (%s)\n" % argv[i])
                raise SystemExit
            elif len(argv[i]) > 1 and u"\uff0c" in argv[i].split('=', 1)[-1]:
                dataToStdout("[!] copy-pasting illegal (non-console) comma characters from Internet is illegal (%s)\n" % argv[i])
                raise SystemExit
            elif re.search(r"\A-\w=.+", argv[i]):
                dataToStdout("[!] potentially miswritten (illegal '=') short option detected ('%s')\n" % argv[i])
                raise SystemExit
            elif re.search(r"\A-\w{3,}", argv[i]):
                if argv[i].strip('-').split('=')[0] in (longOptions | longSwitches):
                    argv[i] = "-%s" % argv[i]
            elif argv[i] in IGNORED_OPTIONS:
                argv[i] = ""
            elif argv[i] in DEPRECATED_OPTIONS:
                argv[i] = ""
            elif argv[i] in ("-s", "--silent"):
                if i + 1 < len(argv) and argv[i + 1].startswith('-') or i + 1 == len(argv):
                    argv[i] = ""
                    conf.verbose = 0
            elif argv[i].startswith("--data-raw"):
                argv[i] = argv[i].replace("--data-raw", "--data", 1)
            elif argv[i].startswith("--auth-creds"):
                argv[i] = argv[i].replace("--auth-creds", "--auth-cred", 1)

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at lib/parse/cmdline.py:1115 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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