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renojim
Community Streaming Expert
6 years ago

Bug in RAF or problem with VAST returned by ad provider?

I've been noticing a bunch of [RAF.err] messages in the console when my game requests an ad and I don't know who to blame. 🙂   The error is something like this: [RAF.err] roUrlTransfer.setURL("h...
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renojim
Community Streaming Expert
6 years ago
"RokuNB" wrote:
regarding ROKU_ADS_EXTERNAL_IP - this is tricky but i think i know the answer! i believe you have LAT selected (limit ad tracking) in Settings > Privacy - that's one of intended results.

Yep, that's probably it!

"RokuNB" wrote:
i figure that ad server is using the value that was correctly escaped (by RAF macro &ua=ROKU_ADS_USER_AGENT or you) but when they substituted it in XML, they did not escape it

Right, that's what it looks like.  My problem is that getting the ad server to fix it probably isn't likely, so I'm missing an opportunity this ad break.  I see the same thing occasionally with other parameters that aren't correctly escaped.  It would be nice if when RAF detects a problem with a URL it automatically fixed such a simple thing.  Or, maybe have a callback and give my code a chance to fix it.

-JT
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    gomad
    Roku Guru
    6 years ago

    We had a similar problem, had the adservers fix the response, as RAF started following this mid jun or something this year. 

    But i agree with you there should be an error thrown for these kinda errors from RAF, easier to capture during testing itself.