Jmeter -Illegal character found in host: '/'

Question

Thread Name:Thread Group 1-1 Sample Start:1970-01-01 05:30:00 IST Load time:0 Connect Time:0 Latency:0 Size in bytes:839 Sent bytes:0 Headers size in bytes:0 Body size in bytes:839 Sample Count:1 Error Count:1 Data type ("text"|"bin"|""):text Response code:Non HTTP response code: java.net.MalformedURLException Response message:Non HTTP response message: Illegal character found in host: '/'

HTTPSampleResult fields: ContentType: DataEncoding: null

Answer 1

You cannot have / character neither in IP address nor in the DNS hostname

You need to split:

1. Protocol: http, https or file
2. Server name or ip
3. Path

into different fields like:

or in exceptional case you can put the whole URL into the "Path" field of the HTTP Request sampler:

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In general it should be much faster and easier to get the "skeleton" of the test project by just recording the test using JMeter's HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder or JMeter Chrome Extension, it will generate "proper" HTTP Request samplers from the browser.

Answer 2

If you are using the ${URL} variable, instead of putting that in the server name and ip section of the HTTP request, put that variable in the path section. That is only if the URL has the entire address of the site including the protocol. E.g., ${URL}=https://thesitename.com.