Invalid URI Error when loading an unreachable URL without specifying URI scheme

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Answer the below. DO NOT DELETE!!

• Have you read the Wiki carefully?

  • Yes

• What version of the product are you using?

  • 2.12.0

• On what operating system?

  • Win10

• If Windows is the AIR app 32bit or 64bit**?

  • 32bit

• Which IDE are you using?

  • VS Code

• Which version of AIR are you using?

  • 32.0

• What steps will reproduce the problem?

  • Using the example application, navigate to "suffolkarchives.co.uk" (omitting the URI scheme and subdomain)

• What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

  • I expect to see the cloudflare Error 523 page, as per other browsers. Instead, the application crashes

• Please provide any additional information below.

  • The following is displayed in the debug console:

    Error: Invalid URI: The format of the URI could not be determined. at flash.external::ExtensionContext/_call() at flash.external::ExtensionContext/call() at com.tuarua::WebView/load()[/Users/eoinlandy/flash/WebViewANE/native_extension/src/com/tuarua/WebView.as:288] at WebViewANESample/onUrlEnter()[C:\Users\timwj\Work\Resources\Actionscript Libraries\WebViewANE\example-desktop-complete\src\WebViewANESample.as:293] at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent() at views::Input/onKeyUp()[C:\Users\timwj\Work\Resources\Actionscript Libraries\WebViewANE\example-desktop-complete\src\views\Input.as:60]

• Does this problem also occur in the WebViewANE Sample Application provided?

  • Yes

[tuarua]

Any url checking/cleaning should be done in your client.

Chromium is rejecting the url and throwing up the error you see above. It's important to remember other browsers are an app+WebView. The ANE is not a browser, but a wrapper around a WebView.

I am unable to do this inside the ANE as I can't assume the prefix eg localhost might want to be http:// web urls might want to be https://

Before passing a url to load you could do

if !url.startsWith(https://) {
  url = https:// + url
}