Need solution - REST client sends host URI twice

tarunsahu

Does anyone know, why/when does REST client on SOATest send host URI twice ?

For an e.g. - If you look at the Request header for RESTful request, then you should see below:

GET /home HTTP/1.0
Host: google.com

However, I am seeing below in my REST Client -

GET http://google.com/home HTTP/1.0
Host: google.com

This makes SOATest to send an invalid URI for GET calls as -

http://google.com/http://google.com/home

This seems to be something related to proxy setup on SOATest tool and I have tried with all possible options but no luck yet.

Can someone please help here ?

Ireneusz Szmigiel

@tarunsahu

could you, please, post your tst with REST client?

It looks like configuration issue, but more details allows us help you.

Ireneusz Szmigiel
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tarunsahu

@Ireneusz Szmigiel - Thanks for your response.
Attached is the sample tst and project file.
Reinstalled the tool but still no luck..

benken_parasoft

GET http://google.com/home HTTP/1.0
Host: google.com

This type of request is correct/legal and doesn't describe something invalid. An absolute URI is used on the first line when an HTTP proxy is used. This likely means you have SOAtest configured to use an HTTP proxy server. If you configure SOAtest to not send messages through an HTTP proxy server then you will get a relative URI on the first line.

tarunsahu

Hi, I have verified the proxy setup and there was no change made - I have also reset the proxy settings to match with other machines where the soatest works well with same tst and project file without returning http 404.

benken_parasoft

What do you see in the Preferences under Parasoft > Proxy. SOAtest will only send absolute URI in the header if an HTTP proxy is enabled.

tarunsahu

"Use system proxy configuration" is enabled but I have tried disabling it as well which also didn't help me.

Below is the sample request & response header details :

Request -

GET <http://localhost:7401/healthcheck HTTP/1.1>
Host: localhost:7401
Connection: close

Response -

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 2622

Since, this is a GET request so there is no request Body.

The same request works on other tools such as Postman, Chrome Rest client, directly on Internet explorer. The issue is just with SOATest.

I have reinstalled SOATest twice but nothing helped me yet.

Matt Love

Hi @tarunsahu,

Could it be that whatever service is providing a healthcheck on port 7401 is running on other machines but not on your localhost?

benken_parasoft

My guess is the 404 is unrelated to absolute vs relative URI in the header. HTTP proxy configuration affects this but regardless both ways are legit. The 404 may be correct. That resource is probably non-existent on localhost:7401. If that's the case then you should also get a 404 when visiting that URI in a web browser on the same SOAtest machine.

tarunsahu

@Matt Love The service is available on local host. Just before this example, I had shared the sample request for google home page too.

@benken_parasoft I am always calling a valid, up and running service. I tried calling google services as well, which are always up.