From 8d92089487c8116edf4fdfb0aa825ce9c29e308a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sander Steffann <sander@steffann.nl>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:18:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Improve comments and error message on invalid characters in
 URL

---
 netbox/netbox/settings.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/netbox/netbox/settings.py b/netbox/netbox/settings.py
index ce0ed7ce7..aaac8a153 100644
--- a/netbox/netbox/settings.py
+++ b/netbox/netbox/settings.py
@@ -324,8 +324,9 @@ if UPDATE_REPO_URL:
             "'https://api.github.com/repos/<owner>/<repository>'"
         )
 
+    # Don't allow ? (query) and # (fragment) in the URL
     if query or fragment:
-        raise ImproperlyConfigured("UPDATE_REPO_URL may not contain a query or fragment")
+        raise ImproperlyConfigured("UPDATE_REPO_URL may not contain a ? (query) or # (fragment)")
 
 # Enforce a cache timeout of at least an hour to protect GitHub
 if UPDATE_CACHE_TIMEOUT < 3600: