Request path contains unescaped characters

[vinaygopinath]

When I run the bitballoon task, I get this message occasionally
Fatal error: Request path contains unescaped characters

This is my Gruntfile.js task definition.

bitballoon: {
            options: {
                token: '<%= bb.token %>'
            },
            dev: {
                site: 'http://example.bitballoon.com',
                src: 'dist/',
            }
}

Running grunt bitballoon --verbose doesn't show anything relevant to fixing this error. After a few days of code changes however, running bitballoon automagically starts to work again.

[chuah48263]

same problem here.

[driannaude]

FWIW this issue helped me solve my problem so I thought I'd add my two cents.

I just came across the same issue when trying to build the Nylas N1 mail client from source. Did a stack trace and found there was a type error in the tunnel-adapter package from the request module.

tunnel-adapter was expecting a String, and was receiving an object for the host member. Updating the dependency to ~0.4.2 in the request package.json and running npm install seems to have resolved the problem for me.