Sauce Labs with protractor, malformed URI - node.js

Question

My protractor config is:
exports.config = {
baseUrl: 'http://www.onet.pl',
directConnect: false,
sauceUser: 'myuser',
sauceKey: 'mypassword',
capabilities: {
'browserName': 'chrome',
'chromeOptions': {
'args': ['show-fps-counter=true', '--allow-running-insecure-content']
}
},
}
When I try to launch the tests I get the following Error:
[12:57:56] I/sauce - Using SauceLabs selenium server at http://ondemand.saucelabs.com:80/wd/hub
[12:57:56] I/launcher - Running 1 instances of WebDriver
[12:57:56] E/launcher - URI malformed
[12:57:56] E/launcher - URIError: URI malformed
at decodeURIComponent (native)
at Url.parse (url.js:275:19)
at Object.urlParse [as parse] (url.js:81:5)
at new HttpClient (C:\Users\gwk736\Gitlab\Inform\e2e\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\http\index.js:221:25)
at C:\Users\gwk736\Gitlab\Inform\e2e\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\executors.js:47:18
at ManagedPromise.invokeCallback_ (C:\Users\gwk736\Gitlab\Inform\e2e\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:1379:14)
at TaskQueue.execute_ (C:\Users\gwk736\Gitlab\Inform\e2e\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:2913:14)
at TaskQueue.executeNext_ (C:\Users\gwk736\Gitlab\Inform\e2e\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:2896:21)
at asyncRun (C:\Users\gwk736\Gitlab\Inform\e2e\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:2820:25)
at C:\Users\gwk736\Gitlab\Inform\e2e\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:639:7
[12:57:56] E/launcher - Process exited with error code 199
Anyone encountered this problem when running tests ?
This is a very strange behaviour to me...
Unfortunately no examples can be found.

Answer 1

I was able to replicate your error by having incorrectly encoded characters in either sauceUser or sauceKey. Can you check if you have any such characters in your config?
sauceUser: 'myuser',
sauceKey: 'password%EA',
Error Stack:
[14:41:46] I/sauce - Using SauceLabs selenium server at http://ondemand.saucelabs.com:80/wd/hub
[14:41:46] I/launcher - Running 1 instances of WebDriver
[14:41:46] E/launcher - URI malformed
[14:41:46] E/launcher - URIError: URI malformed
at decodeURIComponent (native)
at Url.parse (url.js:195:19)
at Object.urlParse [as parse] (url.js:84:5)
This issue in nodeJs has been explained in this nodejs git issue
I just ran into this error when a client encoded 'ê' as '%EA' and an
'é' as "%E9" and then sent them to my node server. Attempting to
decode either of them result in the uri malformed error:
decodeURIComponent("%EA"); URIError: URI malformed at decodeURIComponent (native) at repl:1:1