malformed URL - how to resolve related issues

Updated: July-20

This guide will help you check for common problems that cause the error message”malformed URL”. To understand what might cause it to appear, read bellow frequent issues related to the Elasticsearch concepts: blobstore.

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Log Context

Log”malformed URL”classname is URLBlobStore.java
We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :

@Override
  public BlobContainer blobContainer(BlobPath path) {
  try {
  return new URLBlobContainer(this; path; buildPath(path));
  } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
  throw new BlobStoreException("malformed URL " + path; ex);
  }
  }
 
  @Override
  public void close() {

Related issues to this log

We have gathered selected Q&A from the community and issues from Github, that can help fix related issues please review the following for further information :

1 Java Malformed URL Exception -views 52,691 ,score 23

2 Malformed URL no protocol error -views 37,821,score 1