Unable to submit comment (Permlink is not a valid size)

[tobias-g1]

Expected behavior

A user should be able to submit a comment for any given post.

Actual Behaviour

When attempting to comment on a post, the comment is not submitted to the blockchain.

Steps to reproduce

1. Go to https://alpha.1ramp.io/feed/
2. Sign in using your Steem Account
3. Go to https://alpha.1ramp.io/@ceeka-dacrafta/hb1jnkc00b4ddp6oq12wkamr55wkzmgg4hra1x2huqrzybrvm0gyv33amtss002t20181130100307
4. At the bottom, a comment bar is shown. Within the comment bar, attempt to submit a comment. For example "Test Comment"
5. Click send on the comment.
6. Note that the comment is not submitted to the blockchain.

Environment

• Browser: Google Chrome (Version 65.0.3325.162 (Official Build) (64-bit))
• Device: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
• Operating system: MacOS HighSierra Version 10.13

Issues Details

The following error is shown within the console:

steemconnect.com/api/broadcast:1 

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 ()

Within the response from SteemConnect the following error is provided:

{"error":"server_error","error_description":"permlink.size() > STEEM_MIN_PERMLINK_LENGTH && permlink.size() < STEEM_MAX_PERMLINK_LENGTH: Permlink is not a valid size."}

The following request payload was used in the above request:

{"operations":[["comment",{"parent_author":"","parent_permlink":"","author":"tobias-g","permlink":"re---20181201t043845449z","title":"","body":"test comment","json_metadata":"{\"app\":\"hapramp/0.0.16\"}"}]]}

Recording of Issue

The following issue can be seen in the view below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fpZrtEIoUg&feature=youtu.be

[singhpratyush]

Thanks for reporting @tobias-g1. This turned out to be a quick fix, wonder how I missed it 😅.

[tobias-g1]

Awesome :) I can speak from first-hand experience, it's sometimes the ones that are right in front of you that sneak past. Glad it was useful :)

[5310]

A followup—Even today (early 2021) we can't title works with some (most?) Unicode characters which throws this error at the final stage of publication. I tried with æｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ 【キャラ】