Client error: Illegal character in query at index about http-kit HOT 4 CLOSED

XML in the url? An interesting choice.

Maybe you need to url escape the string before making the request?

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@IliasDeros Hi Ilias! @harold is correct. As the error message indicates:

Illegal character in query at index 67

So you've got an illegal character at position 67 of your string. The 67th character is \<, which isn't a valid URL character.

The typical way to use a URL like this, is via URL encoding - like your browser example.
The same link above should also give some pointers re: URL encoding.

Hope that helps, cheers! :-)

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Thanks for the help!
✅ Solved with URL encoding:

(println "Response:" @(http-kit/get (str "https://production.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPI.dll?API=Verify&XML="
          (java.net.URLEncoder/encode (str "<AddressValidateRequest USERID=\"" userid "\">"
            "<Address ID=\"0\">"
              "<Address1 />"
              "<Address2>" line1 "</Address2>"
              "<City />"
              "<State />"
              "<Zip5>" zip "</Zip5>"
              "<Zip4 />"
            "</Address>"
          "</AddressValidateRequest>")))))
          
;; Response
;; Received fatal alert: handshake_failure

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Note: In case anyone stumbles upon this thread, I resolved that handshake_failure using the following base docker image change:

# Dockerfile
FROM amazoncorretto:8-alpine3.17-jdk

# Instead of: FROM eclipse-temurin:8-alpine

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