Replace text in string of variable

[infomw3qb]

Hi guys,

The users of my app should be allowed to take a photo, which will then be sent to an API for analysis, to send them back its response.

Now for some reason, when I:

set ‘app variable imageURL’ to url from uploaded file ‘photo’

I get the URL of the file as http:// from Cloudinary.

I would need it to be https:// though.

So I tried to replace the http:// in the return from Cloudinary with https:// (see screenshot attached), but it doesn’t work.

What am I doing wrong?

Looking forward to your answers and hopefully learning something new

Kind regards,
Dennis

[matt_conroy]

Hi infomw3qb, welcome to Thunkable!

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For setting the variable teststring, you’ll want to just use the set variable block and not the set app variable as those are made for dynamic variables. I was able to get your desired result by updating to the blocks below:

However, I am also curious about Cloudinary using http. This should not be, their share links all begin with https from what I can see. Can you share one of the links?

[infomw3qb]

Hi Matt,

Thanks so much for your help. That worked!

Regarding Cloudinary, I had the logic built without the replacement (as shown in the attachment) so that it would display the link that gets returned and it shows me the URL as http:// for some reason.

Upon searching, I found this article posted by them.

But maybe I’m doing something wrong. I’m a Newbie to all of this.

What I’m trying to do is to have the user take or select a picture which then gets sent to a Lambda function on an AWS API where I add the secret key to access yet another API. It works when I test it with sample data on AWS, but I need to get the connection to my app.Hopefully it will work now.

Kind regards,
Dennis