Re: Upgraded URL - URL_NOT_EQUIVALENT error although they should be

[Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)]

Hello,

I'm glad you found the source of your issue. Another interesting thing I'm 
noting is the double-encoded symbols in your original URL. You have %257B, 
for example. If decoded, that becomes %7B, then decoded again becomes {. 
There should be no need to encode at all, but double-encoding is definitely 
going to cause issues.

Regards,
Mike, AdWords API Team

On Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 9:06:14 AM UTC-4, Udo Gröbner wrote:
>
> Seems there is some sort of auto-decoding encoded {} ... yes, it's most 
> likely an error in the URL to have encoded value track parameters, but that 
> happens ...
> When I substitute %7B and %7D by { and }, there's no URL_NOT_EQUIVALENT 
> error any longer.
>
> On Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 1:53:00 PM UTC+2, Udo Gröbner wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> we're currently preparing for the "upgraded url" migration for search 
>> campaigns.
>> As far as I understand it, this is what you have to do:
>>
>> Given
>>
>> http://tracking.server.com/tracker?param1={creative}&param2={network}&redirecturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buystuff.com%2Fcatalogsearch%2Fresult%2F%3Fq%3Dthings%2520SN2%26adword%3Dgoogle%252FkampX%252F%257Bkeyword%257D
>>  
>> <http://tracking.server.com/tracker?param1=%7Bcreative%7D&param2=%7Bnetwork%7D&redirecturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buystuff.com%2Fcatalogsearch%2Fresult%2F%3Fq%3Dthings%2520SN2%26adword%3Dgoogle%252FkampX%252F%257Bkeyword%257D>
>> as initial destination url of an ad, the corresponding tracking template 
>> should be
>>
>> http://tracking.server.com/tracker?param1={creative}&param2={network}&redirecturl={lpurl}
>> and the final url for the ad would be
>>
>> http://www.buystuff.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=things%20SN2&adword=google%2FkampX%2F%7Bkeyword%7D
>>
>> The API upgrade process works for some ads, but doesn't for others.
>> What I've found out so far:
>> it works if i change the original destination url before the upgrading 
>> process to correspond to final url 
>> http://www.buystuff.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=things
>> but doesn't work for the original destination url 
>> http://www.buystuff.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=things%20SN2&adword=google%2FkampX%2F%7Bkeyword%7D
>>
>> Is that correct and intended?
>>
>> I don't understand though, why this would trigger a URL_NOT_EQUIVALENT 
>> error. There have been parameters before and the same parameters 
>> afterwards...
>> Do you have some more information on this subject?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance!
>>
>>
>>
>>

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