500 Internal Service Error on underscored subdomains about paypal-node-sdk

[avidas]

Hey looks like an issue with the API, we will track this here and update once we have one

[avidas]

Hey so underscore is not an allowed character, after protocol://, the valid chars allowed are alphanumericals, ‘.’ and ‘-’

A more meaningful 4** error will be returned and documentation updated in a future release.

[kevinmartin]

This doesn't make sense. Why can't the underscore be added to the list of allowed characters? This is a problem for my localized users then. At the moment, I have to do a hack, to re-route them to a non-localized site (ie. es_es.website.com to es.website.com), which is not an ideal situation for me...

This is also a problem for many other apps that have underscores in their subdomain name...

[fagia]

This is not an issue since underscores are not allowed in domain names:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostname

"The Internet standards (Request for Comments) for protocols mandate that component hostname labels may contain only the ASCII letters 'a' through 'z' (in a case-insensitive manner), the digits '0' through '9', and the hyphen ('-')."

So your hostname es_es.website.com is not a valid hostname and the paypal error response is correct

[Skemp45]

so will this not affect you when using a subfolder as a return url such as mydomain.com/test_folder