diff --git a/dashboard-ui/thirdparty/apiclient/connectionmanager.js b/dashboard-ui/thirdparty/apiclient/connectionmanager.js
index bd17e7003b..120b6237e3 100644
--- a/dashboard-ui/thirdparty/apiclient/connectionmanager.js
+++ b/dashboard-ui/thirdparty/apiclient/connectionmanager.js
@@ -964,6 +964,9 @@
 
         function normalizeAddress(address) {
 
+        	// attempt to correct bad input
+        	address = address.trim();
+
             if (address.toLowerCase().indexOf('http') != 0) {
                 address = "http://" + address;
             }