I get Invalid URI error when uploading some images

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Ilya Scharrenbroich

May 01, 2013 01:41

I get the following error when uploading some images:

Error in loading http://www.thebellhouseny.com/uploads/4703.benk[3]web.jpg - Invalid URI

 

The URL is valid and I am able to see the image in the browser.

 

Thanks,

Ilya

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  Itay Taragano

  May 01, 2013 21:09

  Hi Ilya,
  
  The issue you're experiencing is happening because of the presence of invalid URL characters ( in your case '[' and ']' ),

  Uploading works without a hitch with legal-character-URLs.
  
  In order to make it work with special characters like yours, these characters should be escaped,
  
  So your original URL:
  
  http://www.thebellhouseny.com/uploads/4703.benk[3]web.jpg
  
  Should be entered as:
  
  http://www.thebellhouseny.com/uploads/4703.benk%5B3%5Dweb.jpg
  
  For example, in Ruby:
  
  Cloudinary::Uploader.upload("http://www.thebellhouseny.com/uploads/4703.benk%5B3%5Dweb.jpg")

  We are working on enhancing our service to be more lenient and correctly process URLs with invalid characters

  If you are using Cloudinary's 'fetch' URLs, make sure to double escape your URL. For example:
  
  http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/fetch/http://www.thebellhouseny.com/uploads/4703.benk%255B3%255Dweb.jpg

  Thanks,

  Itay

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