Google Fi VPN blocks users from uploading directly to Cloudinary

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• December 23, 2018 03:38
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The error on the console is: `OPTIONS https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1/<my_id>/upload net::ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED`

After disabling the VPN, it works 100% of the time.

It seems to be related to VPN as explained in here: https://superuser.com/questions/747735/regularly-getting-err-network-changed-errors-in-chrome

I suspect that many many Fi users will be on the same VPN. Because Google recommends all Fi users to use VPN. Last week, I got a notification from Google to enable Fi VPN.

Many users in corporate setting often use corporate VPN as well.

I wonder if you can find a way to fix this.

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  Ido

  • December 23, 2018 13:17

  Hi

  Could you maybe share additional details regarding the flow you did?

   

  What device did you use for uploading?

  What was the call you made?

  Any details you could share so we could reproduce this on our end?

   

  You could also open a request at support@cloudinary.com and we could take a closer look into this.

  Thanks

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  Tanin Na Nakorn

  • December 28, 2018 01:12

  Hi Ido,

  I was using my android phone. The action that I did was uploading an image directly from browser. 

  Here was the endpoint I hit: https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1/<my_id>/upload with the http method: OPTIONS.

  It called to OPTIONS because it's a cross-domain ajax call.

  I believe, if you just put your phone into a VPN and try uploading a photo, it will fail. The VPN that failed for me was the Google Fi VPN.

  I hope this helps you reproduce the bug.

  Thank you,

  Tanin

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  Itay Taragano

  • December 31, 2018 22:33

  Hi Tanin,

  I just tried it on Google's VPN on an Android phone (on a Google Fi network), it seems to work well for me, both when I tried uploading from the phone itself and also when I created a hotspot from that phone and tried to upload from a Mac laptop (with Chrome).
  Note that when I attempted to upload from my laptop, at first the upload didn't work, but then I found out a lot of other stuff didn't work either (e.g., even simple GET requests). Then I:

  1. Turned off the laptop's wifi
  2. Disabled the hotspot on the phone
  3. Disabled and then re-enabled Google's VPN on the phone
  4. Re-enabled the phone's hotspot
  5. Re-enabled the laptop's wifi and connected it to the phone.

  After that, everything seemed to work successfully for me. The following helped me debug the issue for me:
  https://windowsreport.com/fix-vpn-wont-work-google-chrome/#.XCqTMM9KifU
  
  Please let us know if this helps?

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  Philip Bradley

  • March 01, 2019 18:34

  Hi All,

  We also are experiencing this exact same issue with Google-Fi VPN on the Pixel 3. We are getting the exact same net::ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED in the phone chrome console.

  We are wondering if this issue occurs with other VPN's as well?

  Is there a work around that anyone at cloudinary can suggest that does not require the user to disable the VPN on their phones?

  Thanks all!

  Phil

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  Itay Taragano

  • March 04, 2019 12:59

  Hi Phil,

  Will you be able to help us with some reproduction steps?

  • How do your phone's settings look like?
  • Did you try to Call Cloudinary from your phone or from another device using your phone as a hotspot?
  • What types of Cloudinary calls did you try?

  Thanks,
  Itay

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  Erwin Lukas

  • March 08, 2019 21:46

  Hi Phil,

  Just to follow-up on this. I tried to test it using Google-FI VPN and performs several tasks on Cloudinary and did not experiencing any issue.

  If possible, can you provide the information as mentioned by Itay above?
  
  Regards,
  Erwin Lukas

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