The Minstrel: Android app and proxy woes

Today I tried to make the Android app mimic the iOS app behavior so that clicking on it would display a full screen page.

It was going well until I hit an issue that didn’t seem to have anything to do with the widget code itself, but it rather seemed to be the hosting I put the proxy on (bluehost) refusing to serve the widget (seems like it triggered a bot detection?)

I tried to troubleshoot it but it doesn’t seem simple… the proxy endpoint is returning HTTP 409 status, apparently Bluehost is trying to filter out the request with a captcha for some reason, so I gotta ask them to allow list it… I’m not sure they would do it for a shared hosting, but we shall see.

Looking forward to complete this and eventually reactivate my Apple Developer account to put this out there in the wild.

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