title: Issue occuring during the proxy recording of jmeter
body: <p>I am a newbie to jmeter, i just started recording the scripts, when i try to record it through proxy server which is available in jmeter, I would see a message on the view of site saying - </p>
  
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    <p>java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in query at index 121: <a href="https://xxx.xxx.com/xyz/RELEASE99/" rel="nofollow">https://xxx.xxx.com/xyz/RELEASE99/</a>" at java.net.URI$Parser.fail(Unknown Source) at java.net.URI$Parser.checkChars(Unknown Source) at java.net.URI$Parser.parseHierarchical(Unknown Source) at java.net.URI$Parser.parse(Unknown Source) at java.net.URI.(Unknown Source) at java.net.URL.toURI(Unknown Source) at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPHC4Imp l.sample(HTTPHC4Impl.java:234) at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSample rProxy.sample(HTTPSamplerProxy.java:62) at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSample rBase.sample(HTTPSamplerBase.java:1088) at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.proxy.Proxy.run(Proxy.java:211)</p>
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  <p>It would be thankful if some one could help me out with a possible solutions on it.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks, Revanth</p>