# Strange onebox failure due to malformed 404

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** onebox\
**Created:** [March 22, 2019, 9:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-onebox-failure-due-to-malformed-404/112310 "2019-03-22T09:23:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2019, 9:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-onebox-failure-due-to-malformed-404/112310/1 "2019-03-22T09:23:52Z")

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relates to this site:

[https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/CVS-to-Sell-CBD-Products-in-800-Stores-in-8-States-507484191.html](https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/CVS-to-Sell-CBD-Products-in-800-Stores-in-8-States-507484191.html)

I get a onebox failure in logs:

`Failed to onebox https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/CVS-to-Sell-CBD-Products-in-800-Stores-in-8-States-507484191.html unexpected character () at line 9, column 2 [parse.c:704] `

more info:

`REQUEST_URI	/onebox?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcsandiego.com%2Fnews%2Fnational-international%2FCVS-to-Sell-CBD-Products-in-800-Stores-in-8-States-507484191.html&refresh=false`

This link previews fine in [iframely](https://iframely.com/embed/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcsandiego.com%2Fnews%2Fnational-international%2FCVS-to-Sell-CBD-Products-in-800-Stores-in-8-States-507484191.html), [facebook](https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcsandiego.com%2Fnews%2Fnational-international%2FCVS-to-Sell-CBD-Products-in-800-Stores-in-8-States-507484191.html) etc.

If anyone is interested in pursuing this let me know if you need more info.

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