{"record":{"id":"2a9097f94bb2a3cf","repo":"sqlmapproject/sqlmap","slug":"problem-occurred-while-parsing-an-url-s-s","errorCode":null,"errorMessage":"problem occurred while parsing an URL '%s' ('%s')","messagePattern":"problem occurred while parsing an URL '(.+?)' \\('(.+?)'\\)","errorType":"exception","errorClass":"SqlmapDataException","httpStatus":null,"severity":"error","filePath":"lib/core/option.py","lineNumber":1693,"sourceCode":"\n    if conf.cookie:\n        debugMsg = \"setting the HTTP Cookie header\"\n        logger.debug(debugMsg)\n\n        conf.httpHeaders.append((HTTP_HEADER.COOKIE, conf.cookie))\n\ndef _setHostname():\n    \"\"\"\n    Set value conf.hostname\n    \"\"\"\n\n    if conf.url:\n        try:\n            conf.hostname = _urllib.parse.urlsplit(conf.url).netloc.split(':')[0]\n        except ValueError as ex:\n            errMsg = \"problem occurred while \"\n            errMsg += \"parsing an URL '%s' ('%s')\" % (conf.url, getSafeExString(ex))\n            raise SqlmapDataException(errMsg)\n\ndef _setHTTPTimeout():\n    \"\"\"\n    Set the HTTP timeout\n    \"\"\"\n\n    if conf.timeout:\n        debugMsg = \"setting the HTTP timeout\"\n        logger.debug(debugMsg)\n\n        conf.timeout = float(conf.timeout)\n\n        if conf.timeout < 3.0:\n            warnMsg = \"the minimum HTTP timeout is 3 seconds, sqlmap \"\n            warnMsg += \"will going to reset it\"\n            logger.warning(warnMsg)\n\n            conf.timeout = 3.0","sourceCodeStart":1675,"sourceCodeEnd":1711,"githubUrl":"https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap/blob/0a35b20e3953d341be6c7ac75ccb0b3362540c8d/lib/core/option.py#L1675-L1711","documentation":"_setHostname derives conf.hostname from --url by calling urllib.parse.urlsplit and taking netloc up to the colon. A ValueError from urlsplit — malformed IPv6 literal, invalid port segment, or other unparseable URL — is caught and re-raised as this SqlmapDataException with the URL and the parser error; it fires during init before any request, so the target URL itself is at fault.","triggerScenarios":"Thrown at lib/core/option.py:1693 when the library encounters an invalid state.","commonSituations":"See trigger scenarios.","solutions":["Fix the --url value to a well-formed URL, e.g. `http://target/page.php?id=1`.","Bracket IPv6 hosts: `http://[fe80::1]/path` instead of a bare IPv6 literal.","Remove invalid port text (e.g. `host:abc`) or stray characters/whitespace from the URL.","Pre-encode problematic characters (spaces, unescaped reserved chars) in the path/query."],"exampleFix":null,"handlingStrategy":"try-catch","validationCode":null,"typeGuard":null,"tryCatchPattern":null,"preventionTips":[],"tags":[],"backgroundTag":null,"analyzedSha":"0a35b20e3953d341be6c7ac75ccb0b3362540c8d","analyzedAt":"2026-08-26T23:02:52.002Z","contentChangedAt":null,"schemaVersion":2},"datasetVersion":"2026-09-23T08:17:48.524Z"}