Users report that Amazon oneboxes are broken on Discourse, affecting both .com and .co.uk domains, with links failing to generate previews Wingtip, HamMan2118, Richie. The issue occurs across browsers and persists even with ad blockers disabled, suggesting a server-side problem. sam notes that Amazon’s lack of support for OpenGraph and oEmbed makes integration fragile. tgxworld confirms a fix has been implemented, referencing a similar prior issue, and confirms the fix resolves the problem Wingtip confirms the issue is now resolved.
Edit: Hey now, looks like it’s broken on meta too!
Searched through the forum but didn’t find anything current on this one. Running 3.3.0.beta2-dev ( 8346f4a1e6 ).
When trying to post an Amazon link, an error results. On my forum I disabled the Amazon affiliate plugin, disabled cloudflare, turned off all content/adblocking, issue still occurs. But since it’s broken here on meta also, seems to be a real bug with no further explanation required.
Wow, that’s incredibly bizarre. My initial post was in Firefox; I just tried in Chrome as well, clean profile with no addons, same issue.
Browsers/Extensions themselves should not be a factor at play here, since oneboxes are done server-side.
I wouldn’t think so, but figured worth a check.
There is a bit of a cat and mouse game with the Amazon oneboxes.
They do not support opengraph or oembed so it makes it rather complicated and fragile to integrate.
We will have a look
The bug being reported here is similar to CNN oneboxing failure - #12 by tgxworld. A fix has been implemented so I will expect the reliability of onebox to improve after the fix has been shipped.
I am able to onebox all the reported links locally with my fix.
Confirm fixed now. Thank you!
