Ошибка curl url malformed 3

Stuck with cURL error 3 URL malformed message on your website? We can help you.

The error usually occurs due to incorrect URL usage or version mismatch between cURL and the underlying application.

At Bobcares, we often get requests to fix cURL errors, as a part of our Server Management Services.

Today, let’s see how our Support Engineers fixed the cURL error 3: malformed for our customers.

What is cURL error 3 URL malformed?

As we know, cURL is a tool used to transfer data between servers using network protocols. But improper usage of cURL in application often throws errors.

Users often approach us with cURL error 3 URL malformed. As the name specifies, the error shows up when the URL is improperly formatted. This can be either due to incorrect syntax or else due to a version mismatch between cURL and the application involved.

For instance, the error appears as

Next, we’ll go through a few cases where our Support Engineers fixed this error.

How we fixed the cURL error?

This cURL error occurs in different servers due to different reasons. So when customers approach, our Support Engineers will have a closer look at each case and fix it. Let’s see a few such cases here.

1. Error while using a Guzzle library

One of our customers was working with the guzzle library to make HTTP requests to an API. But it ended up in cURL error 3. So, we checked the code he used to make the HTTP request.

We saw a code to verify the HTTPS URL,

$client->get('/', ['verify' => true]);

Hence, we checked the API and client settings. And ensured that the secure URL works fine. This verification is an important security check. So we never recommend skipping this, instead, we specified the location of CA files in the server in the client settings.

We also found a mismatch between URL and URI. An identifier was specified for the parameter base_url instead of a locator. Hence it ended up in cURL error.

Hence, correcting the client setting fixed the error.

In general, when such problems arise we make sure that the URL is properly specified so that we can avoid errors.

2. Paystack Laravel package

Another customer had a package that integrated the Paystack payment gateway with the Laravel app. He was getting cURL error 3 URL malformed in the Laravel app.

Our Support Engineers checked the installation location of the package. In a Laravel project, we must install the dependencies or other packages inside the root project folder.

So we installed the package in the Laravel project folder and manually published the configuration file. Later, we checked whether the config folder had the paystack.php file in it. Only then the Laravel app can use the payment gateway without error.

After that, we cleared both the config cache and app cache in Laravel.

php artisan config:cache

php artisan cache:clear

Hence it fixed the error.

3. Outdated WordPress

In this case, the customer had a WordPress site with a Wordfence plugin. But while running a malware scan, it ended with the error cURL error 3: malformed.

When we checked, we found that the user had an outdated WordPress. The cURL process was not able to read the WordPress URL. The URL used ‘//’ which a new cURL version doesn’t support.

Hence we upgraded the WordPress and fixed the error.

[Still, having trouble with cURL error 3 URL malformed? – We’ll fix it for you.]

Conclusion

In short, cURL error 3 URL malformed occurs due to incorrect usage of URL or due to version mismatch between cURL and the underlying web application. Today, we also saw how our Support Engineers fixed this error.

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Answer by Finnley Campos

Rather than disabling verification entirely, this can likely be fixed by providing proper CA bundle file. See verify in Guzzle documentation.,In case you came here because you googled «Guzzle returns cURL error 3: malformed» check the client parameter. In some version it’s base_uri and other base_url,If you want to disable verification (don’t do this!):,The error is means what it says. The url is malformed. In my case on initialization of the Client, I used base_url instead of base_uri. So if you run into this error make sure your url is properly specified.

If you want to disable verification (don’t do this!):

$response = $client->get('https://api.github.com/', ['verify' => false]);

Rather than disabling verification entirely, this can likely be fixed by providing proper CA bundle file. See verify in Guzzle documentation.

$client->setDefaultOption(
    'verify', 
    'C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\curl-ca-bundle.crt'
);

In case you came here because you googled «Guzzle returns cURL error 3: malformed» check the client parameter. In some version it’s base_uri and other base_url

    $client = new Client([
        'base_uri' => 'http://localhost:8000',  // <-- base_uri instead of base_url
    ]);

You should not have this call:

$client->get('/', ['verify' => true]);

Answer by Rafael Park

Meta Stack Overflow

,Stack Overflow en español,In case you came here because you googled «Guzzle returns cURL error 3: malformed» check the client parameter. In some version it’s base_uri and other base_url,Stack Overflow em Português

In case you came here because you googled «Guzzle returns cURL error 3: malformed» check the client parameter. In some version it’s base_uri and other base_url

    $client = new Client([
        'base_uri' => 'http://localhost:8000',  // <-- base_uri instead of base_url
    ]);

Answer by Briar Lowe

In general, when such problems arise we make sure that the URL is properly specified so that we can avoid errors.,Stuck with cURL error 3 URL malformed message on your website? We can help you.,[Still, having trouble with cURL error 3 URL malformed? – We’ll fix it for you.],Users often approach us with cURL error 3 URL malformed. As the name specifies, the error shows up when the URL is improperly formatted. This can be either due to incorrect syntax or else due to a version mismatch between cURL and the application involved.

We saw a code to verify the HTTPS URL,

$client->get('/', ['verify' => true]);

After that, we cleared both the config cache and app cache in Laravel.

php artisan config:cache

php artisan cache:clear

Answer by Oliver Kelley

3 means malformed URL https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html,I will close it. Feel free to re-open if this fix doesn’t solve the issue for you,Without the URL we have no idea, how it is malformed.

No errors have been found.

Answer by Patrick Lucero

I want to try out the guzzle library and am following through their quickstart tutorial to make http requests to an api.,Yet it doesn’t seem to work, because I get the following error:,I would appreciate any help and suggestion, because I would like to try Guzzle out.,I use this option to build my get-requests with guzzle. In combination with json_decode($json_values, true) you can transform json to a php-array.

Yet it doesn’t seem to work, because I get the following error:

cURL error 3: <url> malformed

Since I have never worked with cURL before, I don’t even know how to respond to that error message. Here is my code with the request I am making:

    $client = new Client();
    $client->get('/', ['verify' => true]);

    $response = $client->get('https://api.github.com/');

    dd($response);

Answer by Rowan Richard

I try to run passport ‘/oauth/clients’ method to create new passport’s client with guzzle and got ,guzzle post requests returns malformed error ,Prepend the variable with the route host and thus providing full URL value for the Guzzle client.,

Sterling

1 Year ago

It seems like your $url variable is only having path sections missing any host it must target.
Prepend the variable with the route host and thus providing full URL value for the Guzzle client.
Probable solution:
$url = config(‘app.url’) . ‘/oauth/clients’;

EDIT
You can also set your app URL as the base URL for Guzzle client.

I try to run passport ‘/oauth/clients’ method to create new passport’s client with guzzle and got

local.ERROR: cURL error 3: <url> malformed error 

I do :

            $app_root_url = config('app.url');
            \Log::info('-1 REGISTER $app_root_url::');
            \Log::info($app_root_url);
            $headers =  [
                'content-type' => 'application/json',
                'verify' => true,
            ];

            $guzzleClient = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();
            $url = '/oauth/clients';

            $requestBody['name'] = $newUser->name;
            $requestBody['redirect'] = $app_root_url . '/callback';
//            $requestBody['Accept'] = 'application/json';  // Do I need this parameter ?

            \Log::info('-2 REGISTER $requestBody::');
            \Log::info($requestBody);

            $request = $guzzleClient->post( $url,  [
                "headers" => $headers,             // Do I need these params ?
                'form_params' => $requestBody      // ERROR REFERING THIS LINE
            ]);
            $response = $request->send();
            \Log::info('-3 REGISTER $response::');
            \Log::info($response);

In my app/Providers/AuthServiceProvider.php I added passport routes definition :

public function boot()
{
    $this->registerPolicies();
    Passport::routes();
}

…

 "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^6.5",
 "laravel/framework": "^6.2",
 "laravel/passport": "^8.1",

MODIFIED BLOCK:
I added parameter to my headers :

$headers =  [
    'content-type' => 'application/json',
    'verify' => true,
    'X-CSRF-TOKEN', csrf_token()
];

But debugging this array I see it containes :

array (
  'content-type' => 'application/json',
  'verify' => true,
  0 => 'X-CSRF-TOKEN',
  1 => NULL,
)  

Answer by Maximus Jacobs

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Steps to reproduce

1. Open any document file on my instance

Expected behaviour

I should see my document

Actual behaviour

I see an error on the page and in the error log

Server configuration

Operating system:
Ubuntu 16.04.2

Web server:
Apache 2.2

Database:
MariaDB

PHP version:
7.0.15

Nextcloud version: (see Nextcloud admin page)
12.0 beta 4

Updated from an older Nextcloud/ownCloud or fresh install:
Updated from 12.0 beta 2 but same issue existed

Where did you install Nextcloud from:
PHP install script

Signing status:

Signing status

No errors have been found.

List of activated apps:

App list

Enabled:
  - activity: 2.5.2
  - admin_audit: 1.2.0
  - bruteforcesettings: 1.0.2
  - calendar: 1.5.2
  - comments: 1.2.0
  - dav: 1.3.0
  - federatedfilesharing: 1.2.0
  - federation: 1.2.0
  - files: 1.7.2
  - files_external: 1.3.0
  - files_pdfviewer: 1.1.1
  - files_retention: 1.1.2
  - files_sharing: 1.4.0
  - files_texteditor: 2.4.1
  - files_trashbin: 1.2.0
  - files_versions: 1.5.0
  - files_videoplayer: 1.1.0
  - firstrunwizard: 2.1
  - gallery: 17.0.0
  - logreader: 2.0.0
  - lookup_server_connector: 1.0.0
  - nextcloud_announcements: 1.1
  - notifications: 2.0.0
  - password_policy: 1.2.2
  - provisioning_api: 1.2.0
  - richdocuments: 1.12.27
  - serverinfo: 1.2.0
  - sharebymail: 1.2.0
  - survey_client: 1.0.0
  - systemtags: 1.2.0
  - theming: 1.3.0
  - twofactor_backupcodes: 1.1.1
  - updatenotification: 1.2.0
  - workflowengine: 1.2.0
Disabled:
  - documents
  - encryption
  - music
  - user_external
  - user_ldap
</details>

**The content of config/config.php:**
<details>
<summary>Config report</summary>

```json
{
    "system": {
        "instanceid": "ocd4udorn6gg",
        "passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "trusted_domains": [
            "...",
            "....no-ip.org",
            "....ddns.net",
            "....homenet.org"
        ],
        "datadirectory": "\/var\/www\/nextcloud\/data",
        "overwrite.cli.url": "http:\/\/...\/nextcloud",
        "dbtype": "mysql",
        "version": "12.0.0.21",
        "logtimezone": "UTC",
        "installed": true,
        "maintenance": false,
        "theme": "",
        "loglevel": 2,
        "trashbin_retention_obligation": "auto",
        "appstore.experimental.enabled": true,
        "dbname": "owncloud",
        "dbhost": "127.0.0.1",
        "dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "preview_libreoffice_path": "\/usr\/bin\/libreoffice",
        "updater.secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "memcache.local": "\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu",
        "updater.release.channel": "beta",
        "mail_from_address": "...",
        "mail_smtpmode": "php",
        "mail_smtpauthtype": "LOGIN",
        "mail_domain": "..."
    }
}

Are you using external storage, if yes which one: no

Are you using encryption: Letsencrypt certificate

Are you using an external user-backend, if yes which one: no

Client configuration

Browser:
Chrome 58

Operating system:
Windows 7

Logs

Web server error log

Web server error log
None

Nextcloud log (data/nextcloud.log)

(JSON formated and duplicate back-slashes removed)

{
    "reqId": "SB6dWRTt22YYFP6XJwRx",
    "level": 3,
    "time": "2017-05-19T07:41:56+00:00",
    "remoteAddr": "...",
    "user": "...",
    "app": "richdocuments",
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "/nextcloud/index.php/apps/richdocuments/index?fileId=167904&requesttoken=%2F21lU39ibZspQfU6IrTk7MpBSBfR6pPj%2Bdrq2QTM9Iw%3D%3AyiQsF0ZNXqNqN94VScej2YEKCiLk38mNnLGv6kWdrOU%3D",
    "message": "Exception: {\"Exception\":\"GuzzleHttp\Exception\RequestException\",\"Message\":\"cURL error 3: <url> malformed\",\"Code\":0,\"Trace\":\"#0 /var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/guzzlehttp/guzzle/src/RequestFsm.php(103): GuzzleHttp\Exception\RequestException::wrapException(Object(GuzzleHttp\Message\Request), Object(GuzzleHttp\Ring\Exception\RingException))n#1 /var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/guzzlehttp/guzzle/src/RequestFsm.php(132): GuzzleHttp\RequestFsm->__invoke(Object(GuzzleHttp\Transaction))n#2 /var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/react/promise/src/FulfilledPromise.php(25): GuzzleHttp\RequestFsm->GuzzleHttp\{closure}(Array)n#3 /var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/guzzlehttp/ringphp/src/Future/CompletedFutureValue.php(55): React\Promise\FulfilledPromise->then(Object(Closure), NULL, NULL)n#4 /var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/guzzlehttp/guzzle/src/Message/FutureResponse.php(43): GuzzleHttp\Ring\Future\CompletedFutureValue->then(Object(Closure), NULL, NULL)n#5 /var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/guzzlehttp/guzzle/src/RequestFsm.php(134): GuzzleHttp\Message\FutureResponse::proxy(Object(GuzzleHttp\Ring\Future\CompletedFutureArray), Object(Closure))n#6 /var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/guzzlehttp/guzzle/src/Client.php(165): GuzzleHttp\RequestFsm->__invoke(Object(GuzzleHttp\Transaction))n#7 /var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/guzzlehttp/guzzle/src/Client.php(125): GuzzleHttp\Client->send(Object(GuzzleHttp\Message\Request))n#8 /var/www/html/nextcloud/lib/private/Http/Client/Client.php(138): GuzzleHttp\Client->get('/hosting/discov...', Array)n#9 /var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/richdocuments/lib/WOPI/DiscoveryManager.php(84): OC\Http\Client\Client->get('/hosting/discov...')n#10 /var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/richdocuments/lib/WOPI/Parser.php(41): OCA\Richdocuments\WOPI\DiscoveryManager->get()n#11 /var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/richdocuments/lib/TokenManager.php(94): OCA\Richdocuments\WOPI\Parser->getUrlSrc('application/vnd...')n#12 /var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/richdocuments/lib/Controller/DocumentController.php(108): OCA\Richdocuments\TokenManager->getToken(*** sensitive parameters replaced ***)n#13 [internal function]: OCA\Richdocuments\Controller\DocumentController->index('167904')n#14 /var/www/html/nextcloud/lib/private/AppFramework/Http/Dispatcher.php(160): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)n#15 /var/www/html/nextcloud/lib/private/AppFramework/Http/Dispatcher.php(90): OC\AppFramework\Http\Dispatcher->executeController(Object(OCA\Richdocuments\Controller\DocumentController), 'index')n#16 /var/www/html/nextcloud/lib/private/AppFramework/App.php(114): OC\AppFramework\Http\Dispatcher->dispatch(Object(OCA\Richdocuments\Controller\DocumentController), 'index')n#17 /var/www/html/nextcloud/lib/private/AppFramework/Routing/RouteActionHandler.php(47): OC\AppFramework\App::main('OCA\\Richdocumen...', 'index', Object(OC\AppFramework\DependencyInjection\DIContainer), Array)n#18 [internal function]: OC\AppFramework\Routing\RouteActionHandler->__invoke(Array)n#19 /var/www/html/nextcloud/lib/private/Route/Router.php(299): call_user_func(Object(OC\AppFramework\Routing\RouteActionHandler), Array)n#20 /var/www/html/nextcloud/lib/base.php(1000): OC\Route\Router->match('/apps/richdocum...')n#21 /var/www/html/nextcloud/index.php(40): OC::handleRequest()n#22 {main}\",\"File\":\"/var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/guzzlehttp/guzzle/src/Exception/RequestException.php\",\"Line\":51}",
    "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.81 Safari/537.36",
    "version": "12.0.0.21"
}

Browser log

Browser log
No console error.

Page rendering :

Page request :

Trying to access an api with a php curl get request. For the get request to work I must first authenticate with a post request, essentially signing in to the platform. I get a correct response from the post request but I can’t get the get request to work for me. Here is my code:

<?php

  $login_url = "https://publisher-api.company.com/1.0/Publisher/Login";
  $user_pswd = array(
    "username" => "username1",
    "password" => "password1"
  );

  $report_url = "https://publisher-api.company.com/1.0/Publisher(#####)/Channels/RevenueReport";

  function httpGet($url)
  {
    $ch = curl_init();

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    // curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);

    $output = curl_exec($ch);

    if($output === false)
    {
      echo "Error Number:".curl_errno($ch)."<br>";
      echo "Error String:".curl_error($ch);
    }
    echo $output;

  }

  function httpPost($url_post, $params, $url_get)
  {
    foreach($params as $key=>$value) { $params_string .=$key.'='.$value.'&'; }
    rtrim($params_string, '&');

    $ch = curl_init();

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url_post);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, count($params));
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params_string);

    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    echo $result;

    httpGet($url_get);

    curl_close($ch);
  }

  httpPost($login_url, $user_pswd, $report_url);

?>

This is the output that is echoed out:

{"value":{"publisher":{"active":"1","publisher_id":"#####"}}}1{"error":{"code":"SYSTEM.SERVICE.NOT_AUTHORIZED","message":"You are not authorized to use this service. Authenticate first."}}