I want to make a curl request like this: curl --location 'http://localhost:8080*', but I can receiving this error:

Error: Port should be >= 0 and < 65536. Received 8080*.

This question might seem weird, but this is because we do penetration tests for one of our application and said application report seeing url like this:

http://localhostc:boot.ini

Here’s the code that report such url for the curious:

public static String getAbsolutePath(final HttpServerRequest request) {
    return request.scheme() + "://" + request.host() + request.uri();
}