Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'InvalidArgumentException' with message 'Invalid URI detected.'

[Franz]

Hello all,

I get the this error when getting an URL from a Joomla 2.5 site with php-curl, and not when I just paste the same URL in the browser:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'InvalidArgumentException' with message 'Invalid URI detected.'

I read this:

http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=800933

and tried to apply the "rawurlencode" solution, but with no luck (same error). 

I am really curious about why it seems to happen only with php-curl.

FYI this is a code to get the backup profiles list of Akeeba of a remote site.

Thank you to anyone who can shed some light on this mistery!

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Franz

[Mark Dexter]

It sounds as though you have a quote in your url. You could change the
error message as suggested in the forum thread to see what URL's are
causing the issue. The system tests use php-curl and they work fine
with it running Joomla.

Mark

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[Franz]

Hello Mark and thank you for your answer.

I know I have a quote in my URL. But:

1) it should be escaped by "rawurlencode"

2) why the same URL is fine if I call it via the browser (i.e. I get the desired response)?

[Mark Dexter]

Unfortunately, I don't know the answers to your questions. I would try
debugging the code (where we check for quotes) when you are using the
rawurlencode and see why it is failing. Mark

[Franz]

Thank you again. I found the issue.

There is an intermediate redirect (303 response), so curl automatically fires another request to retrieve the "redirect_url". 

But of course this new "redirect_url" is not correctly escaped, thus the error.

The browser is probably escaping it automatically and that is why I don't get this error in browser..

[elin]

We have recently had an issue come in about quotes in urls in browsers and apparently with the glaring exception of Chrome they will all escape.

Elin

[Richard]

Here is a related bug report: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_id=8103&tracker_item_id=31771

[George Wilson]

Hi Richard,

It had already been filed here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=31036&start=0 so marked yours as a duplicate. There's a patch here we're testing at the moment :)

Kind Regards,
George