Hi, When I start the JMeter Http Proxy Server controller (localhost:9090) and call # lynx http://localhost:9090 -verbose I get as an answer: java.net.UnknownHostException: / at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:177) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:520) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:470) at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:157) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:388) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:523) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.(HttpsClient.java:278) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.New(HttpsClient.java:335) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:176) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:765) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:162) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.connect(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:133) at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSampler.sample(HTTPSampler.java:433) at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase.sample(HTTPSamplerBase.java:1016) at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.proxy.Proxy.run(Proxy.java:195) Wouldn't it be better to display a verbose error message instead of the stacktrace? Possible error message: "You are talking with a proxy. Please configure your browser accordingly and pass the wished url." Thanks for your great work.
It looks to be quite difficult to implement this, so unless someone provides a patch it won't be implemented.
see also bug 46436
This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues/2188