diff -urN squid-2.5.STABLE1.orig/src/cache_cf.c squid-2.5.STABLE1/src/cache_cf.c
--- squid-2.5.STABLE1.orig/src/cache_cf.c	Sat Sep  7 16:13:59 2002
+++ squid-2.5.STABLE1/src/cache_cf.c	Thu Nov 21 09:39:39 2002
@@ -2400,6 +2400,7 @@
     static FILE *wordFile = NULL;
 
     char *t, *fn;
+    char *ch;
     LOCAL_ARRAY(char, buf, 256);
 
   strtok_again:
@@ -2436,7 +2437,10 @@
 	t = buf;
 	/* skip leading and trailing white space */
 	t += strspn(buf, w_space);
-	t[strcspn(t, w_space)] = '\0';
+	for (ch=t+(strlen(t)-1); ch>=t; ch--) {
+		if ( !isspace(*ch) ) break;
+		*ch=0;
+	}
 	/* skip comments */
 	if (*t == '#')
 	    goto strtok_again;