# POST /\_bulk: first path segment in URL cannot contain colon

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/post-bulk-first-path-segment-in-url-cannot-contain-colon/153242>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** packetbeat\
**Created:** [October 20, 2018, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/post-bulk-first-path-segment-in-url-cannot-contain-colon/153242 "2018-10-20T07:15:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![wangqinghuan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d26b3c/32.png) [@wangqinghuan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wangqinghuan)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2018, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/post-bulk-first-path-segment-in-url-cannot-contain-colon/153242/1 "2018-10-20T07:15:31Z")

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Hi  
I deploy a packetbeat-6.4 and obeserve some warning log as follows:  
2018-10-17T13:12:01.528+0800 WARN http/http.go:505 Fail to parse HTTP parameters: parse {"index":{"\_index":"packetbeat-6.4.2-2018.10.17","\_type":"doc"}}  
{"@timestamp":"2018-10-17T05:12:00.000Z","transport":"tcp","start\_time":"2018-10-17T05:11:54.832Z","last\_time":"2018-10-17T05:11:54.860Z","type":"flow","flow\_id":"EAT/////AP//////CP8AAAE4IA8cOCAPXClerN4","final":false,"beat":{"name":"qdvchdes1","hostname":"qdvchdes1","version":"6.4.2"},"source":{"ip":"56.32.15.92","port":57004,"stats":{"net\_packets\_total":2,"net\_bytes\_total":136}},"dest":{"ip":"56.32.15.28","port":24105,"stats":{"net\_packets\_total":4,"net\_bytes\_total":272}},"host":{"name":"qdvchdes1"}}  
{"index":{"\_index":"packetbeat-6.4.2-2018.10.17","\_type":"doc"}}  
{"@timestamp":"2018-10-17T05:12:00.000Z","last\_time":"2018-10-17T05:11:54.997Z","transport":"tcp","start\_time":"2018-10-17T05:11:54.835Z","beat":{"name":"qdvchdes1","hostname":"qdvchdes1","version":"6.4.2"},"host":{"name":"qdvchdes1"},"type":"flow","flow\_id":"EAT/////AP//////CP8AAAE4IA8cOCAPJiVegqY","final":false,"source":{"ip":"56.32.15.38","port":42626,"stats":{"net\_bytes\_total":272,"net\_packets\_total":4}},"dest":{"ip":"56.32.15.28","port":24101,"stats":{"net\_packets\_total":4,"net\_bytes\_total":272}}}  
{"index":{"\_index":"packetbeat-6.4.2-2018.10.17","\_type":"doc"}}  
{"@timestamp":"2018-10-17T05:12:00.000Z","flow\_id":"EAT/////AP//////CP8AAAE4IA8cOCAPHSdelro","transport":"tcp","source":{"ip":"56.32.15.29","port":47766,"stats":{"net\_packets\_total":3,"net\_bytes\_total":204}},"last\_time":"2018-10-17T05:11:54.944Z","beat":{"name":"qdvchdes1","hostname":"qdvchdes1","version":"6.4.2"},"type":"flow","final":false,"dest":{"ip":"56.32.15.28","port":24103,"stats":{"net\_bytes\_total":136,"net\_packets\_total":2}},"start\_time":"2018-10-17T05:11:54.836Z","host":{"name":"qdvchdes1"}}  
POST /\_bulk: first path segment in URL cannot contain colon

It says url contains a colon. Can someone explains for me?

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**Author:** ![adrisr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adrisr/32/25423_2.png) [@adrisr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adrisr)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 4:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/post-bulk-first-path-segment-in-url-cannot-contain-colon/153242/2 "2018-10-25T16:24:51Z")

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> [@wangqinghuan](#):
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> first path segment in URL cannot contain colon

Hi,

Can you reproduce this problem? It would be great if you could share a .pcap that exhibits this behaviour.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 4:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/post-bulk-first-path-segment-in-url-cannot-contain-colon/153242/3 "2018-11-22T16:24:53Z")

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