Problems with authentication, help is welcome. Is this a bug ?

Hi guys, first of all I wanted to say I love construct 3.

I've only started to work on it but I think it's a great product.

I need to build a mobile game that uses firebase.

If I use postman or go to any REST API testing site and POST the exact same string to firebase it responds correctly.

Using construct 3 I get "Email Missing".

I've added the preview.construct.net domain to firebase so that is not the issue.

I would really appreciate some help here. It only takes 2 minutes to reproduce this.

This is the event sheet. very simple just add an AJAX object, Json and text.

If you use postman or go to reqbin.com you will get:

Here is the text of what I'm sending using AJAX, in case you want to copy&past into Construct 3:

URL "https://www.googleapis.com/identitytoolkit/v3/relyingparty/verifyPassword?key=AIzaSyBPAFvzKk9vZjHcm_uYb3JBw8_70_rOLYk"

Data "{""email"":""test@test.com"",""password"":""test123""}"

Thanks in advance

Forgot to add what I get back as a I response if I use construct3

where you can see the message, missing email. But the email is there and if I copy and paste the same data to postman I get a valid response.

thanks in advance

I don't know why data is not sent, but sending the same values in url parameters seems to work:

"https://www.googleapis.com/identitytoolkit/v3/relyingparty/verifyPassword?key=AIzaSyBPAFvzKk9vZjHcm_uYb3JBw8_70_rOLYk&email=" & URLEncode("test@test.com") & "&password=test123"

Many thanks dop2000 !

that is really weird. Why do you think this happens in Construct ?

must be a bug right ?

bummer

I think I've seen this issue before. May be a bug, I don't know.

You can report it here:

github.com/Scirra/Construct-3-bugs/issues

Many thanks dop2000 !

that is really weird. Why do you think this happens in Construct ?

must be a bug right ?

bummer

Do I need to encode the "at" symbol in some way inside a string ??

In case this is helpful for others.

I was about to file a bug but then decided to try one last thing, which was helped by what dop2000 wrote in his message.

This works and I get the right response from firebase.

Why sending a json doesn't and this does I don't understand...

regards

You must URLEncode URL parameters for them to be sent correctly.

You can't put a string like {email:example@example.com} in a URL, because it uses special characters which aren't allowed in URLs. If you URL encode it, you get %7Bemail%3Aexample%40example.com%7D (note no braces, colon or at sign, because none of that is allowed in URLs). This is why Construct provides a URLEncode expression. And it's also why it tells you that when you select the "Data" parameter!