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Cannot upload a GPX file, server is broken from what I can see.

Former Member over 7 years ago

So I have a race this Sunday and would like to upload the GPX route to use as a course. However as with so many times before, I am getting the error:

"An error occurred with your upload. Please try again."

First thing I did was tried the same GPX file against other sites, and it works on all of them (gpsvisualizer.com, maplorer.com and others). I then tried three different browsers (chrome, firefox, safari) and three OS'es: Linux, Windows, Android (using the browser, not the connect app), again I got the same useless error message.

It then occurred to me that I might be able to look at the server response, to which I found:

ManualUploadPageView.js?bust=4.6.0.12:1 Wed May 02 2018 15:36:59 GMT+0100 (BST) - error uploading file Outdoor Magic Trail Half Marathon.gpx status(400)
ManualUploadPageView.js?bust=4.6.0.12:1 Wed May 02 2018 15:36:59 GMT+0100 (BST) - Failed to parse JSON (null)

Now here's the thing. GPX is in XML format ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Exchange_Format ) , so why are Garmin trying to parse JSON format?

Perhaps a developers mistake and its just mistyped in the logs.

Anyway is it possible this could be fixed? Everytime I get prepared for a big race where I will need GPS navigation I cannot upload any GPX files. I can see threads going back 2014 where this feature seems to break a lot.

0 TrippyZ over 7 years ago

I notice that when I try to download that file from the Outdoor Magic website strange things happen. It is automatically being opened in a browser tab rather than being downloaded. To me, the website isn't handling the file correctly.