[arin-tech-discuss] API breakage after website change

[Mark Kosters]

Hi Brian

We changed more than just the website on this release.  We changed a bunch of things within our infrastructure to make it more highly available.  We did not realize that our old infrastructure was more permissive allowing duplicate slashes in the middle of the URL. If you try it again with the invalid slashes, you will now get a proper 404. 

Thanks for the bug report!

Thanks,
Mark

On 3/4/19, 2:55 PM, "arin-tech-discuss on behalf of Brian Rak" <arin-tech-discuss-bounces at arin.net on behalf of brak at gameservers.com> wrote:

    We noticed that something broke with the API with the new website.  We 
    used to hit URLs like this:
    
    https://reg.arin.net//rest/report/reassignment/NET6-2001-19F0-1?apikey=xxxx
    
    However, these have started throwing 404s now.  In addition, they 
    redirect us to the non-existant domain http.arin.net:
    
    $ wget --spider 
    https://reg.arin.net//rest/report/reassignment/NET6-2001-19F0-1?apikey=xxxx
    Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.
    --2019-03-04 14:51:23-- 
    https://reg.arin.net//rest/report/reassignment/NET6-2001-19F0-1?apikey=xxxx
    Resolving reg.arin.net (reg.arin.net)... 2001:500:4:c000::72, 199.43.0.72
    Connecting to reg.arin.net (reg.arin.net)|2001:500:4:c000::72|:443... 
    connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
    Location: https://http.arin.net/404.html [following]
    Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.
    --2019-03-04 14:51:24--  https://http.arin.net/404.html
    Resolving http.arin.net (http.arin.net)... failed: Name or service not 
    known.
    wget: unable to resolve host address ‘http.arin.net’
    
    In this case, it's the duplicate slash in the URL that's causing the 
    problem, so the workaround on our end is pretty straightforward, but I 
    was not expecting this to break with the website change.
    
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