diff --git a/data/txt/sha256sums.txt b/data/txt/sha256sums.txt
index 8f3a25817..89139de76 100644
--- a/data/txt/sha256sums.txt
+++ b/data/txt/sha256sums.txt
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ c03dc585f89642cfd81b087ac2723e3e1bb3bfa8c60e6f5fe58ef3b0113ebfe6  lib/core/data.
 48797d6c34dd9bb8a53f7f3794c85f4288d82a9a1d6be7fcf317d388cb20d4b3  lib/core/replication.py
 0b8c38a01bb01f843d94a6c5f2075ee47520d0c4aa799cecea9c3e2c5a4a23a6  lib/core/revision.py
 888daba83fd4a34e9503fe21f01fef4cc730e5cde871b1d40e15d4cbc847d56c  lib/core/session.py
-c47f468f0b178996607216adf25eaea93c03e20539a4454079cf40cd699b36fe  lib/core/settings.py
+cd4418c52fad272f6a4089d675af7442d386b74d3e7e3ec3b27a0eb77d152ee0  lib/core/settings.py
 cd5a66deee8963ba8e7e9af3dd36eb5e8127d4d68698811c29e789655f507f82  lib/core/shell.py
 bcb5d8090d5e3e0ef2a586ba09ba80eef0c6d51feb0f611ed25299fbb254f725  lib/core/subprocessng.py
 70ea3768f1b3062b22d20644df41c86238157ec80dd43da40545c620714273c6  lib/core/target.py
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ c5b258be7485089fac9d9cd179960e774fbd85e62836dc67cce76cc028bb6aeb  lib/parse/hand
 d2e771cdacef25ee3fdc0e0355b92e7cd1b68f5edc2756ffc19f75d183ba2c73  lib/parse/payloads.py
 455ab0ec63e55cd56ce4a884b85bdc089223155008cab0f3696da5a33118f95b  lib/parse/sitemap.py
 1be3da334411657461421b8a26a0f2ff28e1af1e28f1e963c6c92768f9b0847c  lib/request/basicauthhandler.py
-b34d38c711b1fcbf8004174cc34733a742f55bc91f389f2619e14c1c7c0a63d8  lib/request/basic.py
+c49b8bb803b670907501e3afe207a776889e844623355bbd0428ca5e457fe298  lib/request/basic.py
 bc61bc944b81a7670884f82231033a6ac703324b34b071c9834886a92e249d0e  lib/request/chunkedhandler.py
 09c2d8786fb5280f5f14a7b4345ecb2e7c2ca836ee06a6cf9b51770df923d94c  lib/request/comparison.py
 9236db2abad1b1d368a3c5a5beb655055fd2445faba57a4172db264b06105bd4  lib/request/connect.py
diff --git a/lib/core/settings.py b/lib/core/settings.py
index a4bc5c042..7a2c8809d 100644
--- a/lib/core/settings.py
+++ b/lib/core/settings.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ from lib.core.enums import OS
 from thirdparty import six
 
 # sqlmap version (<major>.<minor>.<month>.<monthly commit>)
-VERSION = "1.10.6.68"
+VERSION = "1.10.6.69"
 TYPE = "dev" if VERSION.count('.') > 2 and VERSION.split('.')[-1] != '0' else "stable"
 TYPE_COLORS = {"dev": 33, "stable": 90, "pip": 34}
 VERSION_STRING = "sqlmap/%s#%s" % ('.'.join(VERSION.split('.')[:-1]) if VERSION.count('.') > 2 and VERSION.split('.')[-1] == '0' else VERSION, TYPE)
diff --git a/lib/request/basic.py b/lib/request/basic.py
index 8d1b79a3e..84e2d345c 100644
--- a/lib/request/basic.py
+++ b/lib/request/basic.py
@@ -235,13 +235,13 @@ def checkCharEncoding(encoding, warn=True):
     # Reference: http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html
     try:
         codecs.lookup(encoding)
-    except:
+    except LookupError:
         encoding = None
 
     if encoding:
         try:
             six.text_type(getBytes(randomStr()), encoding)
-        except:
+        except (UnicodeDecodeError, LookupError):
             if warn:
                 warnMsg = "invalid web page charset '%s'" % encoding
                 singleTimeLogMessage(warnMsg, logging.WARN, encoding)