Tweet button not working with a 'localhost' data-url?

[Olivier K]

Hi, I'm currently testing the tweet button for our website. When I
test the button locally and want to share a link in the form of
'http://localhost:8080/somepath/image.jpg' its says that the 'url'
param is invalid. But when I test it on a 'real' server (like
example.com) the button does work.
The data-url attribures are dynamically generated, which means if the
file was on 'example.com' instead of 'localhost' the link would be
'http://example.com/somepath/image.jpg'
Can anyone confirm that share does not work with 'localhost' as data-
url?

Thanks,

Olivier.

[John Adams]

There were recently some anti-XSS patches made to our code that might be blocking your use of "localhost".

-j

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[Matt Harris]

http://localhost is not a shareable URL so this error is expected.
Instead, if you need to test things locally you might want to add a
development domain name into your computers hosts file instead.

Hope that helps,

@themattharris
Developer Advocate, Twitter
http://twitter.com/themattharris

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Olivier K <okit...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Tom van der Woerdt]

Why would you want to generate a link that would only work for you? Just
accept that it will not work and you'll be fine ;-)

Tom