ID tag returns and insecure URLwhen secure is required.

[citydeals1]

 I am having an issue that I was able to resolve but felt like it was a bit of a hack.  I use the API to search for a contact by email addresses and the result returned if found is an XML representation of the contact.  In the xml is there is a tag called <id> containg the URL to get the contacts details (as outlined here: http://developer.constantcontact.com/doc/contactCollection).  However if you make a GET request on this returned URL, it fails.

I have discovered this is due to the ID tag being an insecure (http://) url whereas the API requires that a secure (https://) request be made.  So I am having to find and replace on the string before inserting it into my DB so that the next process that make the request will have the correct URL.

[Anonymous]

<id> tags are not supposed to be used as a URI according to the Atom spec.  We happen to use a URI format as ID for each of the objects you are trying to get, but the value of<id> could be in any format.  It's literally an ID, not a URL that you can use to access the object.

The correct way is to use href attribute of <link> tag and form your own URI by prefixing it with protocol (https://) and the host name (api.constantcontact.com).

To prevent confusion like this going forward, we will be using different format for <id> tags with new APIs in areas we have not covered yet.