diff --git a/src/distroquery.cpp b/src/distroquery.cpp
index 1f1940f..654a016 100644
--- a/src/distroquery.cpp
+++ b/src/distroquery.cpp
@@ -1541,7 +1541,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
       DistroqueryAPI *api = new DistroqueryAPI(firstconfigtag);
       api->getApiResponse(&path_info[strlen(API_PREFIX)]);
       exit(0);
-   } else {
+   } else if (path_info && strlen(path_info) > 0) {
       cout << "Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8" << endl;
       cout << "Status: 400 Bad request" << endl << endl;
       cout << "ERROR: invalid path: " << path_info;