Amazon.com vs. amazon.co.uk weirdness

mbnielsen · January 3, 2013

Using the book icon on amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Security-Power-Tools-Bryan-Burns/dp/0596009631/
works.

on the uk site: Amazon.co.uk
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Security-Power-Tools-Bryan-Burns/dp/0596009631/

Gives me
"Saving Item…
An error occurred while saving this item. Check Known Translator Issues for more information."

Debugging gives me:
(2)(+0000005): Translate: Translation using Amazon.com failed:
string => TypeError: Cannot call method 'split' of undefined
stack => TypeError: Cannot call method 'split' of undefined
at parseXML (eval at <anonymous> (chrome-extension://ekhagklcjbdpajgpjgmbionohlpdbjgc/inject/translate_inject.js:50:9))
at chrome-extension://ekhagklcjbdpajgpjgmbionohlpdbjgc/zotero/utilities_translate.js:314:5
at _stateChange (chrome-extension://ekhagklcjbdpajgpjgmbionohlpdbjgc/http.js:161:7)
at <error: Error: INVALID_STATE_ERR: DOM Exception 11>
url => http://www.amazon.co.uk/Security-Power-Tools-Bryan-Burns/dp/0596009631/
downloadAssociatedFiles => true
automaticSnapshots => true

I am on linux, chromium "Version 21.0.1180.89 Debian wheezy/sid (154005)" and zotero standalone 3.0.11.1.

adamsmith · January 3, 2013

I don't have time to look at this in detail at the moment, but you'd typically get that error when Zotero can't retrieve the product info XML from amazon and then tries to parse the returned error page as xml.
This could be because of a temporary problem with amazon.co.uk, but could also be due to an ID that's no longer working or so.
Let us know if you continue to have that problem and someone will take a closer look.