system.openURL() not respecting case on Windows Simulator

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Bug # WAITING FOR RESPONSE WILL UPDATE

Hi folks.  I’ve already submitted a bug, but if you’re running into this while testing you may not know the cause and I don’t want you to waste time.

In a nutshell, all environments are fine except Windows 7 running the simulator.

In this case, if you run this line of code, YouTube (and any other endpoint that cares about URL case) will fail:

system.openURL( "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEQPPeP0vsQ" )

It’s not you, it is the simulator.

Results: 2015.2634 - Windows 7 ==\> FAIL (All lower case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seqppep0vsq ) 2015.2625 - OS X 10.107 ==\> SUCCESS 2015.2625 - iOS 8.2 ==\> SUCCESS 2015.2634 - Android 4.4 ==\> SUCCESS
#2

Are you saying that Windows 7 is converting it to all lower case?  Then that would most certainly be a bug.  I just don’t know if it’s ours or Windows. 

Rob

#3

Yeah.  Just on Windows and I’ll have to do a ‘way back’ test to see if this used to work or not. 

For now, I’m getting around it by making custom bitly links that are all lower case.

Oh, and did you guys get my bug filing?  I never got an e-mail so now I wonder if I goofed up and closed the window without submitting.

The filing has a similar title to this post.

-Ed

#4

We dug into it and discovered that it was accidentally introduced in build #2631.

This bug is now fixed and the fix will be made available in daily build #2637.

Thank you for reporting this issue.

(Side Note:  I didn’t know URLs were case sensitive.  Learned something new today.)

#5

Hi guys, I just got a phantom acceptance notice for this old bug submission: 40684

I think this was just a system hiccup, but if not, this problem has been fixed.

#6

There was an email hiccup today. I got one too!

#7

Are you saying that Windows 7 is converting it to all lower case?  Then that would most certainly be a bug.  I just don’t know if it’s ours or Windows. 

Rob

#8

Yeah.  Just on Windows and I’ll have to do a ‘way back’ test to see if this used to work or not. 

For now, I’m getting around it by making custom bitly links that are all lower case.

Oh, and did you guys get my bug filing?  I never got an e-mail so now I wonder if I goofed up and closed the window without submitting.

The filing has a similar title to this post.

-Ed

#9

We dug into it and discovered that it was accidentally introduced in build #2631.

This bug is now fixed and the fix will be made available in daily build #2637.

Thank you for reporting this issue.

(Side Note:  I didn’t know URLs were case sensitive.  Learned something new today.)

#10

Hi guys, I just got a phantom acceptance notice for this old bug submission: 40684

I think this was just a system hiccup, but if not, this problem has been fixed.

#11

There was an email hiccup today. I got one too!