GET https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/ 404 ()

[Giancarlo Amati]

Good morning Team,

I am setting my player to call the following ad-tag URL:

https://b.measuread.com/c2/17196392/vast/c3-c3-1479766203116.xml?cn=display&c=23&pl=VAST&pli=19638961&PluID=0&pos=9701&ord=%%CACHEBUSTER%%&cim=1&c3=722856&c4=40578826&c5=19638961&duration=00:00:20

which can be see in the following page example:

http://vitv.it/test/html5/player_test_300x250.html?pp=false&advflash=false&player_id=r1b7YZSxS&account_id=4664230225001&html5tech=true&blur=false&dctestAdv=tag&tag=vpaidhtml/procterv

in the console window of Chrome (latest Version), I see the following error messages: 

TL.js:1 GET https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/ 404 ()initAd @ TL.js:1Z.J @ loader12.html?https://b.measuread.com/TL.js%23c2=17196392&c3=722856&c4=40578826&c5=19638961&c6=&cs_…:49nb @ loader12.html?https://b.measuread.com/TL.js%23c2=17196392&c3=722856&c4=40578826&c5=19638961&c6=&cs_…:20kb @ loader12.html?https://b.measuread.com/TL.js%23c2=17196392&c3=722856&c4=40578826&c5=19638961&c6=&cs_…:21(anonymous function) @ loader12.html?https://b.measuread.com/TL.js%23c2=17196392&c3=722856&c4=40578826&c5=19638961&c6=&cs_…:19

2016-11-22 18:37:46.286 ?el=adunit&controls=0&html5=1&playsinline=1&ps=gvn&showinfo=0&widget_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fvitv.it%…:10 Uncaught ReferenceError: ytcfg is not defined(…)

Can you guys can help to understand what is the 404 error about? 

Any idea would be helpful.

Best,

GC

[Vu Chau (IMA SDK Team)]

Hi Giancarlo,

There are two errors at hand here:

2016-11-22 18:37:46.286 ?el=adunit&controls=0&html5=1&playsinline=1&ps=gvn&showinfo=0&widget_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fvitv.it%…:10 Uncaught ReferenceError: ytcfg is not defined(…)

This is a known issue and we have submitted a fix for this.  It should be deployed shortly.  That said, this error shouldn't be affecting your ad playback.  Let me know if you see otherwise.

 GET https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/ 404 ()

This seems to be caused by the VPAID ad trying to attach an iframe.  Either the VPAID creator should fix it, or the video player should make use of the VPAID INSECURE mode, so that the VPAID ad can create whatever it wants.  I confirmed the 404 error went away when requesting via INSECURE: https://goo.gl/BtlHhi.

Vu Chau
IMA SDK Team

[Giancarlo Amati]

HI Vu,

thank you very much for your help. l'll investigate further but you really gave me great hints.

Best,

GC