Thursday 2 July 2015

HolidayIQ share feature broken

The HolidayIQ app did not have share facility before so you could only read their blogs when you get a push notification but not share it with somebody. Recently, I was glad to see the share feature in their app. However, when I tried using it by sharing on WhatsApp, it seems they messed up again. The shared URL is a shortened URL so the problem is not quite apparent on first sight but when a person opens the URL in a browser on a phone that does not have the app, the URL does not work with a message that the URL was not understood (This message was from Firefox. Other browsers will have similar issues.). The problem is that the URL specifies incorrect protocol. Instead of http:// the shortened URL expands to one starting with holiday:// With phones that have the app, this URL is opened in the HolidayIQ app and causes no issues. However, I think they should use a http:// URL while sharing.

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