bug: TypeError: Request path contains unescaped char

[perrygovier]

From @Kyozatch on March 19, 2015 8:43

Type: bug

Platform: all

Hi,

I just downloaded ionic. I created the project without any problem but, when i tried "ionic platform add android" i got an error :
"npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-android/3.7.1
TypeError: Request path contains unescaped characters."

I was looking for a solution on google, it seems to be a proxy problem. However, I already set my proxy config and it works..

ionic : 1.3.16 cordova : 4.3.0 node : 0.12.0

Thanks

Copied from original issue: ionic-team/ionic-framework#3355

[jbavari]

@kyozatch - does this keep happening every time you run it?

What did you set your proxy settings to?

[Zatchou]

Yes everytime. I tried on an other free BOX and it works. But with my corporate proxy, it seems pretty complicated.

My .npmrc file :
proxy=http://myproxy:myport/
registry=http://registry.npmjs.org/
https-proxy=http://myproxy:myport/
strict-ssl=false

I did set my environment variables in Windows too.

This config has already been tested and works. Did i miss something else ?...

[r-cohen]

++
same problem on my side. I don't want to downgrade node. seems to be a problem with Cordova rather than ionic because the following command produces also the error :

cordova platform add android

(downgrading node to 0.10.29 does solve the issue, but is lame)

[geisi93]

Did anybody come up with some solution to this problem without downgrading node? it is not a matter of proxy or environment variable - there is some problem with cordova.

[jonmikelm]

Same problem here, solved the issue downgrading node to 0.10.29

[pulsee]

Same problem tried following :
npm config set proxy http://proxydomain:port/
npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.org/

Tried following versions with error :
Cordova 4.3.0
Cordova 4.0.0

[geisi93]

I didn't want to downgrade node, so I found another solution somewhere in the Web:

Replace the content of C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\request\node_modules\tunnel-agent

with the content of this zip:

https://github.com/mikeal/tunnel-agent

however, you will probably need to configure the proxy settings as well:

npm config set proxy http://proxy:port
set PROXY=http://proxy:port

[arlyxiao]

Same problem here

[Cooker-Monster]

Hi,
same problem on Windows with :

• cordova : 5.0
• npm : 2.7.4
• node: v0.12.2

[generic-user]

@geisi93 That works, thanks!

[geisi93]

for those who still have problems -
propably you have to replace the contents of

C:\Users{USERNAME}\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_modules\cordova-lib\node_modules\request\node_modules\tunnel-agent

with the contents of with the content of this zip:

https://github.com/mikeal/tunnel-agent

too.

[s0th]

@geisi93 you are a star! worked perfectly

[faizaghaazfaiz]

Hi ,
i am facing request path contains unescaped characters even after setting proxy and registry , and even changed the contents of tunnel_agent.

[faizaghaazfaiz]

I have installed node v0.12.3 , cordova 5.0.0 ,npm 2.9.1
please guide me , what i am doing wrong...

[geisi93]

look at the console, there you can see the path of the tunnel-agent where the problem occurs. make sure to replace the tunnel-agent exactly in the path, that is shown in the console!

[jason5149]

Just try the new version of node v0.12.3, but unfortunately they haven't fixed this issue...

[DarrylD]

Had same issue when trying to run crosswalk, dropped node version back down to 0.10.33, worked fine after that.

[Zatchou]

I tried @DarrylD's solution. Works perfectly for me. Have a good day.

[vishal2511]

thanks geisi93, your solution worked like a charm...

[ygayl]

Thanks @geisi93, works perfectly for me too :)

[jbavari]

@geisi93 is this an issue with the cordova-lib then, you think?

I see here they are still using an older version of the request module.

If we can convince them to update it to 2.55.1 - that'd get that fix you all are using - correct?

[geisi93]

@jbavari basically it works when you downgrade nodejs, so nodejs uses also an old version. but since changing the tunnel-agent in the cordova-lib solves the problem, an update to the newest version could possibly help, yes.

[r-cohen]

how do you replace tunnel-agent on linux ?
Edit1: on my ubuntu, tunnel-agent to replace is here:
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/node_modules/tunnel-agent

[ghost]

Can someone help me out and explain how to replace the tunnel-agent on windows 8.1. I have installed cordova and nodejs many times, but this latest version is killing me. Here is my output from my command prompt:cordova platform add wp8

npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-wp8/3.8.0 TypeError: Request path contains unescaped characters

at new ClientRequest (_http_client.js:73:11)

at TunnelingAgent.exports.request (http.js:49:10)

at TunnelingAgent.createSocket (C:\Users\oneilj\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_modules\cordova-lib\node_modules\npm\node_modules\req

uest\node_modules\tunnel-agent\index.js:117:25)

at TunnelingAgent.createSecureSocket [as createSocket] (C:\Users\oneilj\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_modules\cordova-lib\node_modu

les\npm\node_modules\request\node_modules\tunnel-agent\index.js:184:41)

at TunnelingAgent.addRequest (C:\Users\oneilj\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_modules\cordova-lib\node_modules\npm\node_modules\reque

st\node_modules\tunnel-agent\index.js:80:8)

at new ClientRequest (_http_client.js:154:16)

at Object.exports.request (http.js:49:10)

at Object.exports.request (https.js:136:15)

at Request.start (C:\Users\oneilj\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_modules\cordova-lib\node_modules\npm\node_modules\request\index.js:

594:30)

at Request.end (C:\Users\oneilj\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_modules\cordova-lib\node_modules\npm\node_modules\request\index.js:11

86:28)

[geisi93]

@oneiljm I have explained it above. Just download the current tunnel agent and replace the folder in the path the error message shows

[ghost]

Thanks

[paulocesarpcfj]

Solution from @geisi93 works like a charm :P ! Thank you.

[jonmikelm]

Also worked @geisi93 's solution for me. It looks like the problem is the npm dependency of the last cordova-lib.

  cordova-lib 5.0.0 -> npm 1.3.4 -> request 2.21.0 -> tunnel-agent: 0.3.0

A newer npm version would resolve to a newer tunnel-agent version.

  cordova-lib 5.0.0 -> ###npm 2.11.0 -> request 2.55.0 -> tunnel-agent 0.4.0###

[nhanh2301]

This issues still with nodejs version 0.12.4

Need install request module? or request module build-in nodejs?

[samurai55]

If this issue is not relevant?
request/tunnel-agent#10

[normanhh3]

Updating the index.js file in the tunnel-agent folder worked for me with Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 - sure seems like there should be a better way! Sigh. :-(

[ngloom]

same problem here with newest ionic with error message:

Downloading: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-app-base/archive/master.zip
[=============================]  100%  0.0s
Downloading: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-starter-tabs/archive/master.zip
[=============================]  100%  0.0s
Updated the hooks directory to have execute permissions
Update Config.xml
Initializing cordova project


Adding in iOS application by default
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-ios
An uncaught exception occurred and has been reported to Ionic



Request path contains unescaped characters. (CLI v1.6.1)

Your system information:

Cordova CLI: 5.1.1
Ionic Version: 1.0.1
Ionic CLI Version: 1.6.1
Ionic App Lib Version: 0.3.3
ios-deploy version: Not installed
ios-sim version: 3.1.1
OS: Mac OS X Yosemite
Node Version: v0.12.7
Xcode version: Xcode 6.4 Build version 6E35b

after replace the /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/node_modules/tunnel-agent with newest tunnel-agent v0.41, it seems works,

Thanks all, guys.

[sLatzko]

Thank you very much @geisi93!

[blowsie]

@samurai55 still relevant, I ran into this today

[compactdave]

I have node 0.12.7 and had the problem.
Tried @geisi93's initial solution. Discovered I had installed 64 bit version of node and that there was no tunnel-agent in my install of node. Copied the contents of https://github.com/mikeal/tunnel-agent-master to C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules, renaming to tunnel-agent.
No good.
Used @geisi93's follow up solution. Found tunnel-agent at C:\Users{USER}\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_modules\cordova-lib\node_modules\request\node_modules. Replaced it with https://github.com/mikeal/tunnel-agent-master, renaming to tunnel-agent.
Perfect!
Many thanks, @geisi93.

[bhandaribhumin]

when build cordova project in netbeans error :
ant -f C:\Users\EnDev2\Documents\NetBeansProjects\test_application\nbproject "-Dupdate.task.jar=C:\Program Files\NetBeans 8.0\webcommon\ant\extra\org-netbeans-modules-cordova-projectupdate.jar" -Dandroid.project.activity=test_application -Dsite.root=www -Dstart.file=index.html -Dandroid.sdk.home=C:\android\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20140702\sdk -Dandroid.target.device.arg=run -Dcordova.version=5.1.1-0.0.0 -Denv.DISPLAY=:0.0 "-Dios.certificate.name=iPhone Developer" -Dandroid.build.target=android-20 -Dconfig=android_1 build-android
check-android-template:
check-cordova-version:
check-cordova-project:
upgrade-to-cordova-project:
create-android:
cordova.cmd -d platform add android
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-androidNo version supplied. Retrieving version from config.xml...

TypeError: Request path contains unescaped characters.
at new ClientRequest (_http_client.js:73:11)
at TunnelingAgent.exports.request (http.js:49:10)
at TunnelingAgent.createSocket (C:\Users\EnDev2\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_modules\cordova-lib\node_modules\npm\node_modules\request\node_modules\tunnel-agent\index.js:117:25)
at TunnelingAgent.createSecureSocket as createSocket
at TunnelingAgent.addRequest (C:\Users\EnDev2\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_modules\cordova-lib\node_modules\npm\node_modules\request\node_modules\tunnel-agent\index.js:80:8)
at new ClientRequest (_http_client.js:154:16)
at Object.exports.request (http.js:49:10)
at Object.exports.request (https.js:136:15)
at Request.start (C:\Users\EnDev2\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_modules\cordova-lib\node_modules\npm\node_modules\request\index.js:594:30)
at Request.end (C:\Users\EnDev2\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_modules\cordova-lib\node_modules\npm\node_modules\request\index.js:1186:28)
C:\Users\EnDev2\Documents\NetBeansProjects\test_application\nbproject\build.xml:150: exec returned: 1
BUILD FAILED (total time: 3 seconds)

[EricOFreitas]

Hi!
I executed my cmd in administrator mode and executed again the command and work fine ;)

[willywongi]

See this issue: npm/npm#4569
It's all sorted out with cordova-cli 5.2.0, which is already tagged on github (https://github.com/apache/cordova-lib/releases/tag/5.2.0) but still not on npm.

I wanted to use the new cordova-cli, so this is what I did:

• Installed dev version of cordova-cli from github:
  sudo npm install -g git://git@github.com:apache/cordova-cli.git
• Changed a file in ionic-app-lib, which is one of the number of packages under the "ionic" umbrella:

# /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic/node_modules/ionic-app-lib/lib/info.js
# Change line 59 to this:
  info.cordova = result.output.replace('\n', '').slice(0, 5);

This is needed so that ionic recognize cordova version and does not complain about version mismatching.

I tried a lot of things, so beware: this could not work for you; I hope cordova and ionic will update soon though.

Ciao

[ibhag]

@geisi93 Thanks for the solution. It worked!!

[RupenAnjaria]

I tried the solution provided by @geisi93, however, now I am getting below error:
The "RunMdaTargetsInstall" task was not given a value for the required parameter "NpmInstallDir".

[jthoms1]

Thanks for opening the issue. It seems that issue has been resolved. I am going to close this issue but please feel free to reopen another issue if this occurs again.

[PabloEzequiel]

Thanks a lot +geisi93 !

That works for me, replace:
(x86)\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\request\node_modules\tunnel-agent

with the content of this zip:

https://github.com/mikeal/tunnel-agent