404 bug when not using a video thumbnail

  • Resolved doffine

    (@doffine)


    2 years, 5 months ago

    Hi @shehabulislam,

    we found the next problem in this plugin in several WordPress installations. You can reproduce it as follows:

    1. Take any MP4 video and embed it into a WordPress page via the [html5_video id=…]. Don’t set up a video thumbnail.
    2. Load the page in the frontend and you will see a 404 request like
      GET https://www.DOMAIN.TLD/CURRENT_PAGE_PERMALINK/false [HTTP/2 404 1240ms]
    3. No matter how many videos are embedded in the page, there only is this one 404 request. It always has the current page permalink and then a “/false” at the end, which of course produces a 404.
    4. Then set up a video thumbnail for the video and get back to the page.
    5. Reload it and the 404 is gone.

    We also tried disabling your plugin and the error was gone, too. So it is for sure a bug in your plugin that can be worked around by uploading a video thumbnail. We think you will want to fix this since 404s on pages are not cool, especially not for Google.

    Thank you for your work and many greetings,
    -doffine

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  • Plugin Author shehabulislam

    (@shehabulislam)

    2 years, 5 months ago

    Hi

    We have addressed this issue in the latest version. Kindly update to the most recent version.

    Thank you

    Thread Starter doffine

    (@doffine)

    2 years, 5 months ago

    Hi @shehabulislam,

    unfortunately the error hasn’t been fixed with the current update. We tried it again, and whenever we don’t have a video thumbnail set for a video, in the browser console we see a 404 request:

    GET https://www.DOMAIN.TLD/path/false [HTTP/2 404 1683ms]

    As soon as we set a video thumbnail in your plugin for the video on this page and reload the page, the 404 is gone. When we remove the thumbnail and again reload the page the 404 is back again. It is reproducible. So I marked this thread as not resolved again.

    No matter which page we load without a thumbnail set in a video with your player: The path ………../false is called and this causes a 404 error.

    We guess you will want to look into this again.

    Greetings,
    -doffine

    Plugin Author shehabulislam

    (@shehabulislam)

    2 years, 4 months ago

    Hello

    Please try the latest version 2.5.23 and let us know if the issue still exists.

    Thank you

    Thread Starter doffine

    (@doffine)

    2 years, 4 months ago

    Hi @shehabulislam,

    the latest version indeed fixes this bug. I set this thread as resolved then.

    Thank you a lot for your work,
    -doffine

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