add-on url with query string and oxygen 19.1

[jonathangudgion]

add-on urls with a query string like http://mysite/addon.aspx?version=test used to work in oxygen 17 and 19

in 19.1 they now give an error

Description: Invalid update site. Cause: Premature end of file.

Is this by accident or design?

Thanks

Jonathan

[alex_jitianu]

Hello,

I can't think of anything we changed that might have affected this behavior. If you go to File->Open URL... and you paste the add-on url, do you see the expected content? Likewise, if you open this URL in a browser, does it return what you expect?

Best regards,
Alex

[jonathangudgion]

File->Open Url opens the file as does a browser

Only the add-on related functionality doesn't work

The 3 add-on related options on the help menu all give the error "Description: Invalid update site. Cause: Premature end of file."

I've changed the log4j.properties file for oxygen and can see this in the output

18503 DEBUG [ pool-3-thread-1 ] ro.sync.net.protocol.http.WebdavHttpURLConnection - Construct a connection to {add-on-url}?version=live?_=1517400772759

so it looks like oxygen is adding ?_=1517400772759 (which I guess changes each time but haven't checked) to the add-on url, presumably to get fresh content something like that. But I'm guessing!

I've removed the value of add-on url but can provide logs via email if you want

Thanks

Jonathan

[alex_jitianu]

Hi,

Good catch! We add this

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?_=1517400772759

parameter as a cache buster, to make sure we get a fresh version of the file. Unfortunately, we didn't take into account an already existing GET section. I will add an issue to fix this but until we release a new version, perhaps you can find an workaround on your side as well:
- perhaps on the server side, test if the value of the version parameter starts with "live"
- change a bit the URL to ensure that even after we append to the GET the version parameter has the correct value: {add-on-url}?version=live&a=

I'm sorry for the inconvenience...

Best regards,
Alex

[sorin_carbunaru]

Hello Jonathan,

I just wanted to let you know that in the recently released oXygen 20 we fixed the problem that you stumbled upon.

Thank you for using oXygen and for your feedback!

Best wishes,
Sorin Carbunaru
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