I am using golang on appengine (go version go1.2.1 (appengine-1.9.3) linux/386)
My new app is having trouble when trying to read a cloud storage file's contents. I can get the Object info via google-api-go-client, and the MediaLink gives me a URL like this:
On dev_app_server or appengine, when I try to urlfetch this jpeg, I get "404 Not Found". When I paste the same URL into my browser, I get a 307 redirect, and then a 200 for a new URL that looks likes this:
https://storage.googleapis.com/bucket/profile%2Fpath_to_the_file.jpeg?generation=1402107955298000
I tried a test and just did a urlfetch request for first a www.googleapis.com URL, and then a storage.googleapis.com URL. The first URL gives a 404, but the second URL gives 200 OK. I have nearly identical code working in another app - why am I getting the false 404s in this instance?
Thanks, Tim.
Apparently this is an issue with how golang parses a URL string and translates it to a net/url struct. You can use the URL.Opaque field to work around this behavior. I didn't write this code, but here is an example of how googleapi addresses this same issue in order to preserve the %2F separators in the path.
