# WARN : You might have an = symbol in url

**URL:** <https://forum.robotframework.org/t/warn-you-might-have-an-symbol-in-url/2463>\
**Category:** RequestsLibrary\
**Created:** [27 September 2021 10:27 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/warn-you-might-have-an-symbol-in-url/2463 "2021-09-27T10:27:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![resourceful-idiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@resourceful-idiot](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/resourceful-idiot)\
**Post date:** [27 September 2021 10:27 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/warn-you-might-have-an-symbol-in-url/2463/1 "2021-09-27T10:27:26Z")

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Hi, the url is formed correctly there is no ‘=’ symbol?

INFO : FAIL  
INFO : &{headers} = { Authorization=12345 }  
INFO : Creating Session using : alias=mantis, url= **[https://mytest.mantishub.io/](https://mytest.mantishub.io/)** , headers={‘Authorization’: ‘12345’}, cookies={}, auth=None, timeout=None, proxies=None, verify=False, debug=0  
WARN : You might have an = symbol in url. You better place ‘url=’ before, example: ‘url=/your-url/foo?param=a’ or use ‘/your-url/foo params=param=a’ or escape it  
INFO : ${response} = None  
FAIL : TypeError: get\_on\_session() missing 1 required positional argument: ‘url’  
INFO : None

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**Author:** ![Wolfe1](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.robotframework.org/wolfe1/32/3386_2.png) [@Wolfe1](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/Wolfe1)\
**Post date:** [27 September 2021 11:56 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/warn-you-might-have-an-symbol-in-url/2463/2 "2021-09-27T11:56:13Z")

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I think you just need to remove the space between ‘url=’ and ‘**[https://mytest.mantishub.io/](https://mytest.mantishub.io/)**’

so:

url=**[https://mytest.mantishub.io/](https://mytest.mantishub.io/)**

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**Author:** ![resourceful-idiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@resourceful-idiot](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/resourceful-idiot)\
**Post date:** [27 September 2021 13:53 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/warn-you-might-have-an-symbol-in-url/2463/3 "2021-09-27T13:53:35Z")

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Thank you but I tried this and just got the same error, this is my code:

```
***Variables***

```

${MantisToken} 12345  
${MantisServer} [https://mytest.mantishub.io/](https://mytest.mantishub.io/)

```
&{headers}= Create Dictionary Authorization=${MantisToken}
Create Session mantis ${MantisServer} headers=${headers} verify=false
${response}= GET On Session mantis /api/rest/users/me?id=123
Log ${response}
```

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**Author:** ![resourceful-idiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@resourceful-idiot](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/resourceful-idiot)\
**Post date:** [27 September 2021 17:03 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/warn-you-might-have-an-symbol-in-url/2463/4 "2021-09-27T17:03:39Z")

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I’ve tried to change the code between the url variable but RIDE just puts it back. In the error log it does not show white space before the url as above. I can’t see this code can be much simpler… anyone have any thoughts.

Many thanks.

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**Author:** ![Wolfe1](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.robotframework.org/wolfe1/32/3386_2.png) [@Wolfe1](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/Wolfe1)\
**Post date:** [27 September 2021 17:41 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/warn-you-might-have-an-symbol-in-url/2463/5 "2021-09-27T17:41:57Z")

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Ah I see now that the error is in your ‘Get On Session’ command which does indeed have an = sign in the ‘/api/rest/users/me?id=123’ part.

I think the solution then would be to follow the suggestion of the error message and make it:

```
${response}= GET On Session mantis url=/api/rest/users/me?id=123

```

or

```
${response}= GET On Session mantis /api/rest/users/me params=id=123

```

or escape the = character as it says. Hope that helps,

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**Author:** ![resourceful-idiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@resourceful-idiot](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/resourceful-idiot)\
**Post date:** [29 September 2021 08:33 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/warn-you-might-have-an-symbol-in-url/2463/6 "2021-09-29T08:33:34Z")

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Thank you but this still did not work. Is there a free entity which I can run a Get request against just to get a simple 200 response so I can discount postman set up.

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**Author:** ![robinmackaij](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.robotframework.org/robinmackaij/32/126_2.png) [@robinmackaij](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/robinmackaij)\
**Post date:** [29 September 2021 11:15 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/warn-you-might-have-an-symbol-in-url/2463/7 "2021-09-29T11:15:58Z")

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[This tutorial](https://www.guru99.com/postman-tutorial.html) uses [https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users](https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users) and that’s publicly available.