Error 1101- Unable to get a response with the specified URL

e_a · November 23, 2020, 3:06pm

Hello!
I have made an app using MIT App Inventor where the app collects data and then sends it to a google sheet through a google form using the respective URLs. Whenever the data is being collected, I get the Error 1101: Unable to get a response with the specified URL. I have checked that my wifi connection is stable. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

TIMAI2 · November 23, 2020, 3:25pm

Need more details

e_a · November 23, 2020, 3:27pm

Hi! Thanks for your response!
Can you be more specific about the details you need?
Thanks!

TIMAI2 · November 23, 2020, 3:28pm

Relevant Blocks showing these "respective urls" for a start, then...

e_a · November 23, 2020, 3:31pm

TIMAI2 · November 23, 2020, 3:34pm

Need to see this url in its entirety

Also I like to put this at the end of the url: (after your Label18.Text)
text

e_a · November 23, 2020, 3:36pm

Entire first URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1i-V_Y7kaECboThshbc5X3gvqSgWsj3arI3T8sNiX8pk/formResponse

TIMAI2 · November 23, 2020, 3:39pm

Should work....

e_a · November 23, 2020, 3:47pm

I received this error? Does this mean something? I have not received it before

e_a · November 23, 2020, 3:55pm

It looks like the error 1101 itself is gone, thank you so much for your help on that! However, I am now encountering a new problem, while the error is not showing up, the data collected by the app is not being received by the google form or the spreadsheet. I have tried to submit responses to the form outside of the app, and these responses are received. Any suggestions?

TIMAI2 · November 23, 2020, 3:57pm

Try just sending some dummy data to the form "inside" the app (copy the blocks and replace your variable data with text). - Just to post to the form, nothing else.

This will tell you if your "built" url is working or not. Then you can move on to discovering what else is causing an error in your block coding.

e_a · November 23, 2020, 4:03pm

The error 1101 has begun appearing again...

TIMAI2 · November 23, 2020, 4:06pm

If I follow your url in my browser I get:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJYmFNi6jPZnLa_QQJ_oT38LrFdth9JBlBL6k8ofnaZOyveQ

see the extra /e/

e_a · November 23, 2020, 4:10pm

Interesting, when following the URL, I do not get the extra /e/. I am inexperienced in this, but the rest of the URL looks different as well. Which URL did you follow, the one I had sent earlier or the one in the screenshot, or a separate one?
I tried sending some dummy data from "inside" the app earlier and, while no error appeared, the form/spreadsheet did not receive the response.
Whenever the error 1101 appears, the app does not send the collected data to the google form/spreadsheet. I have a theory that the error message sometimes appears delayed or does not appear at all, but internally the error is still occurring. Is this possible?

TIMAI2 · November 23, 2020, 4:21pm

The one you posted
Strange
Possible

TIMAI2 · November 23, 2020, 4:26pm

If testing in companion, right click on your join block that builds the url and paste the output here (hopefully with all the sensor data included)

e_a · November 23, 2020, 4:30pm

Is this what you mean?

TIMAI2 · November 23, 2020, 4:30pm

ooh, just had a thought, some or all of your data antries may need uriEncoding.

Add this block to each of your entries:

component_method (1)

TIMAI2 · November 23, 2020, 4:30pm

Sort of, but try the above first with the uriEncode block

e_a · November 23, 2020, 4:37pm

I didn't get the error message (or maybe it's delayed or something), but the data still didn't send to the google form/spreadsheet