java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character in authority at index 7 while making https request

Question

While making http request to my local wamp server from android emulator I got above error.

// testing on Emulator:
private static final String LOGIN_URL="http:// 10.0.2.2:80/webservice/login.php";

//request:
JSONObject json = jsonParser.makeHttpRequest(LOGIN_URL, "POST", params);

score 30 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 18 '13 at 04:40

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You have a space at index 7 of your string LOGIN_URL and it is causing the exception. It should be like this.

LOGIN_URL = "http://10.0.2.2:80/webservice/login.php"

answered Aug 18 '13 at 04:40

Ye Lin Aung

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I had a new line character and after i deleted "\n" it worked fine. – user1501382 Jan 31 '15 at 18:34

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited May 05 '19 at 13:09

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I found the answer:
After googling for couple of hours I found that this kind of error occur due to problem in url
I had extra space in my URL which I removed and I got everything working

    // testing on Emulator:
    private static final String LOGIN_URL = "http://10.0.2.2:80/webservice/login.php";

edited May 05 '19 at 13:09

recnac

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answered Aug 18 '13 at 04:41

sandeep_jagtap

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Consider marking one of the questions as accepted to prevent the SO bot keeping the question up in the top of the list and in the "Unanswered" section. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/accepted-answer – Tseng Aug 18 '13 at 05:13

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 24 '21 at 20:17

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For me it was a new line character at the end of the url String. It wasn't really visible to the naked eye but I caught it with Vi. Pretty dumb error message, not at all helpful.

answered Feb 24 '21 at 20:17

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java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character in authority at index 7 while making https request

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