URL including /http/ will throw error : Connection is being rejected

[coolshijun]

• VSCode Version: 1.42.1
• OS Version: macOS 10.15.3
• REST Client Version: 0.23.2

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Accessing https://localhost/data/http will be successful
2. But if you append more like https://localhost/data/http/config, this will throw below error.

Connection is being rejected. The service isn’t running on the server, or incorrect proxy settings in vscode, or a firewall is blocking requests. Details: RequestError: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:443.

[Huachao]

@coolshijun sounds strange, did you use some reverse proxy to reject specific path? And does it work with cURL

[coolshijun]

no, just local docker image, and as I described, the parent path can be accessed and if you have 'http/anything', it will throw this error, so I don't think it's related to environment.

[Huachao]

@coolshijun what's your hosted web server for your web app and your web framework?

[coolshijun]

just flask and connexion rest api, it's easy to reproduce, if you have any api like http://localhost/user/12345, and you can use http://localhost/user/12345/http to test, it will give you error message like user doen't exist, but at least the request is sent to the server to process, but if you have http://localhost/user/12345/http/test, this will trigger the error and the request never reach the server.

[Huachao]

@coolshijun can you work with cURL?

[coolshijun]

yes, same url can be accessed by cURL and postman even it will throw server error, but at least the request is sent to server, but use REST Client, the request is NOT sent to server at all.

[Huachao]

@coolshijun could you please paste the curl command details with -v option in curl and help me to investigate? Thanks in advance.

[coolshijun]

ok, I misunderstood your question, I use "copy request as cURL" to see the details
for the working url like http://localhost/user/12345/http, you will see
curl --request GET
--url 'http://localhost/user/12345/http' \

bur for the call like http://localhost/user/12345/http/test, you will get empty url like

curl --request GET
--url '' \

So the transformation is going to be empty, I believe that's the reason for rejection.

[Huachao]

@coolshijun nice catch, I have fixed the issue and will be published in the next release. The root cause is that the url contains http word which causes parse error.

[coolshijun]

cool, thanks for quick response!!!

[Huachao]

@coolshijun as you wished. Thanks for your email
rest-client-0.23.2.vsix.txt

[coolshijun]

Excellent! Thank you very much!

[Huachao]

@coolshijun you can try this in the latest version 0.24.0

[coolshijun]

Great! Thanks for keeping me posted.