Using ant contrib HttpClientTask with url set to ant's property

Question

I am trying to use ant's property, set based on some condition & passing to http task like:

if test env then

<property name="framed.url" value="http://url.to.check"/> 

else if prod env then

<property name="framed.url" value="http://some.other.url.to.check"/> 

I am trying to use ant-contrib httpclient task to call URL, like below

<taskdef name="http" classname="org.missinglink.ant.task.http.HttpClientTask">
...

<http url="${framed.url}"
...

but it is giving below error.

org.missinglink.http.exception.InvalidUriException: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index 1: org.missinglink.http.exception.InvalidUriException: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index 1: ${framed.url}

How to esacpe / pass ant property to url ?

Answer 1

This worked, after creating a macrodef & making macro-call within if-else evaluation by passing the url.