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JMeter: How to supply a hostname which contains a forward slash in JMeter user defined variables?

The hostname being supplied to the JMeter test plan, contains a forward slash and has been defined in the User defined variables section. However, each time the test is run, the following is seen in the response message:

Response message:Non HTTP response message: Illegal character found in host: '/'

The hostname provided: Jmetertest.com/test

Is there any way around this? Thanks in advance! :)

Solution

  • A DNS hostname cannot contain slash.

    The Internet standards (Request for Comments) for protocols specify that labels may contain only the ASCII letters a through z (in a case-insensitive manner), the digits 0 through 9, and the hyphen-minus character ('-'). The original specification of hostnames required that labels start with an alpha character, and not end with a hyphen

    So you need to split hostname from the URL Path

    i.e. in the following URL:

    https://example.com/foo?bar=baz
    • https - the protocol
    • example.com - is the hostname
    • /foo is the path
    • ?bar=baz is the query string

    In the HTTP Request sampler you can only have the following syntax:

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    If you put anything than allowed characters into "Server name of IP" field you will get an error.

    Theoretically it's possible to put the full URL into the "Path" field like:

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    But in this case configuration elements like HTTP Cookie Manager may stop working.