phacility/phabricator · error · Exception

The remote URI has leading or trailing whitespace.

Error message

The remote URI has leading or trailing whitespace.

What it means

Error "The remote URI has leading or trailing whitespace." thrown in phacility/phabricator.

Source

Thrown at src/applications/repository/storage/PhabricatorRepository.php:1641

                VALUES(messageCount)),
            statusCode = VALUES(statusCode),
            parameters = VALUES(parameters),
            epoch = VALUES(epoch)',
        $table_name,
        $this->getID(),
        $status_type,
        $status_code,
        json_encode($parameters),
        time(),
        1);
    }

    return $this;
  }

  public static function assertValidRemoteURI($uri) {
    if (trim($uri) != $uri) {
      throw new Exception(
        pht('The remote URI has leading or trailing whitespace.'));
    }

    $uri_object = new PhutilURI($uri);
    $protocol = $uri_object->getProtocol();

    // Catch confusion between Git/SCP-style URIs and normal URIs. See T3619
    // for discussion. This is usually a user adding "ssh://" to an implicit
    // SSH Git URI.
    if ($protocol == 'ssh') {
      if (preg_match('(^[^:@]+://[^/:]+:[^\d])', $uri)) {
        throw new Exception(
          pht(
            "The remote URI is not formatted correctly. Remote URIs ".
            "with an explicit protocol should be in the form ".
            "'%s', not '%s'. The '%s' syntax is only valid in SCP-style URIs.",
            'proto://domain/path',
            'proto://domain:/path',

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at src/applications/repository/storage/PhabricatorRepository.php:1641 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of phacility/phabricator@5720a38cfe (2026-08-21). Data as JSON: /api/errors/4da2323a5e3b6e4c. Report an issue: GitHub.