Eddystone URL not showing up in iOS Chrome "Today"

BLE Beacons Eddystone
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Hi, my url is shortened, with https://. Is there a reason why its not showing up in iOS Chrome?

It does show up in the phy.net browser.

Here’s the URL

https://goo.gl/8IxaqX

Thanks!

DC

2

Any theories? I’m bringing them to Cambridge Hackspace tonight for a demo, and it would be great if I could at least explain why they aren’t showing up. : )

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Hmm, I’ve just plugged your URL to verify.physical-web.org and I got this:

image

I guess you may have removed it though (;

I don’t know about phy.net browser, I doubt it uses the same logic that Chrome uses to decide whether to show a URL or not.

Can you try following this troubleshooting article from Google, see if it helps? If you have any questions about it, let us know!
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6239299?hl=en

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Thanks for getting back to me, Piotr.

No, I didn’t remove it, so I’m a little confused why it’s rejecting it. I had already checked that document you recommended, which is helpful (thanks!), so I thought I was down the road on this.

My hosting provider offers “secure” https addresses, so I used one of those as a trial, and then shortened it.

Here’s the secure address (the pictures aren’t all loading, but I think I can fix that):

https://secure196.inmotionhosting.com/~freed100/play/turn-light-move-servo

And here’s the URL, from goo.gl (I had to add the “s” manually, but I read that’s kosher):

https://goo.gl/8IxaqX

They both work in a browser.

I bet there’s some filtering signal that I’m triggering. I was hoping that I wouldn’t have to pay an extra $100+ to buy an SSL certificate – just to do this demo. : (

Thanks so much for your help!

DC

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It looks like your provider is blocking robots:

https://secure196.inmotionhosting.com/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

… which explains why the Physical Web bot can’t access the site.

To be honest, that’s a bit weird, 'cause it also means that any website on that server won’t be accessible via Google or any other search engine … which I guess might be a good thing, or a terrible thing :slight_smile:

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I just signed up for an SSL certificate, not a “shared” SSL certificate, so maybe I can bypass that. They may be just blocking robots on the shared SSL.

We’ll soon find out.