votes up 2

URL has an invalid label.

Package:
requests
github stars 45920
Exception Class:
InvalidURL

Raise code

        # non-ASCII characters. This allows users to automatically get the correct IDNA
        # behaviour. For strings containing only ASCII characters, we need to also verify
        # it doesn't start with a wildcard (*), before allowing the unencoded hostname.
        if not unicode_is_ascii(host):
            try:
                host = self._get_idna_encoded_host(host)
            except UnicodeError:
                raise InvalidURL('URL has an invalid label.')
        elif host.startswith(u'*'):
            raise InvalidURL('URL has an invalid label.')

        # Carefully reconstruct the network location
        netloc = auth or ''
        if netloc:
            netloc += '@'
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Links to the raise (2)

https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/f6d43b03fbb9a1e75ed63a9aa15738a8fce99b50/requests/models.py#L403 https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/f6d43b03fbb9a1e75ed63a9aa15738a8fce99b50/requests/models.py#L405

See also in the other packages (2)

(❌️ No answer)
pipenv/url-has-an-invalid-label/
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pip/url-has-an-invalid-label/

Ways to fix

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Summary: Make sure your ulr does not start with a wildcard '*'.

Code to reproduce (WRONG)

import requests

# url cannot start with wildcard      '*'
req = requests.Request('GET', 'https://*fixexception.com')
r = req.prepare()

Working Version (FIXED)

import requests

# there is no wildcard now
req = requests.Request('GET', 'https://fixexception.com')
r = req.prepare()

print(r)

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