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"Couldn't connect to Hacker News" Error when loading Top

Open Ferlow opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Version: 4.7.4

Description

The Top category doesnot load and shows "Couldn't connect to Hacker News". Other categories load fine.

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Steps to Reproduce

  1. Load Hackers App
  2. Wait a few seconds
  3. Error shows and page remains blank

Expected behavior: Top posts load.

Actual behavior: Top posts didn't load.

Ferlow avatar Sep 21 '22 13:09 Ferlow

This is because the link submitted for the BetterBird post is https://www.betterbird.eu/## with a double hash at the end. For some reason Swift URL parsing rejects this even though it's a valid URL, when then breaks down the whole parsing chain.

weiran avatar Sep 21 '22 16:09 weiran