Bugsphoto URLs now contain underscores which causes issues in Java
- Status: Fixed
- Priority: Medium
- Updated: July 2, 2012 at 9:28pm
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Øyvind Sean Kinsey
This should now be resolved. Thanks for your patience.
Status changed to Fixed · July 2, 2012 at 9:28pm
Jeff Bowen
Thanks for the report. We will follow up.
Status changed to Triaged · Priority changed to Medium · June 15, 2012 at 5:07pm
Seems like in the past few days cover photos urls have changed from: https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/... to https://fbcdn_sphotos_a-a.akamaihd.net/... the new url's underscores causes a lot of issues in Java (in our case on Android), since they're not legal urls (hostnames shouldn't have underscores).
See problems of handling url's in many enviroments, including java, here:
http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=hostname+uri+underscore
I've noticed that when I try to get public cover photos w/o an access token, I get a different link, w/o underscores, e.g. cover photo for Mark Zuckerberg w/ access token returns:
https://fbcdn_sphotos_a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/
and the same request w/o access token returns:
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/
See problems of handling url's in many enviroments, including java, here:
http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=hostname+uri+underscore
I've noticed that when I try to get public cover photos w/o an access token, I get a different link, w/o underscores, e.g. cover photo for Mark Zuckerberg w/ access token returns:
https://fbcdn_sphotos_a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/
and the same request w/o access token returns:
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/
| Steps to Reproduce: | 1. get Mark Zuckerberg's cover photo: https://graph.facebook.com/4?access_token<MY ACCESS TOKEN>&format=json&fields=cover 2. Result: { "cover": { "id": "989690200741", "source": "https://fbcdn_sphotos_a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/ "offset_y": 0 }, "id": "4" } 3. try to get that image in java: URL url = new URL("https://fbcdn_sphotos_a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/ final URLConnection conn = url.openConnection(); conn.connect(); ... |
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| Expected Behavior: | The image gets downloaded |
| Actual Behavior: | Either: java.IOException: Illegal Character in hostname at index 0 or java.lang.NullPointerException at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection$Address.hashCode(HttpConnection.java:343) at java.util.HashMap.get(HashMap.java:298) at libcore.net.http.HttpConnectionPool.get(HttpConnectionPool.java:67) at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection.connect(HttpConnection.java:128) |
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