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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?