Adding appLink fails

[nebulon]

This is from a support ticket, but might be interesting for more people.

Trying to add a Crunchbase Profile as an App Link Fails to save for the link https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/swiss-founders-fund-ag resulting in:

Oct 26 17:03:47 box:applinks add: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/swiss-founders-fund-ag {
upstreamUri: 'https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/swiss-founders-fund-ag',
label: 'Crn',
accessRestriction: null,
tags: []
POST /api/v1/applinks 400 Bad Request cannot fetch upstream uri for favicon and label 302.490 ms - 93

The root cause here is, that this domain happens to be hosted on CloudFlare, which returns a 403 status code to our request to attempt to fetch the page from the backend to retrieve title and favicon.

I am not sure what the solution is, either there is a way to circumvent the bot protection which causes the 403 or we should allow adding applinks, even if these things fail.

[nebulon]

For now, if we can't fetch the upstreamUri to get the title and icon, we still accept it as one can set those things manually anyways.

[3699n]

@nebulon That sounds like the right solution to me as well. I usually prefer setting the Title and Icon manually anyway.

[3699n]

@nebulon In which release will this fix be included