XTLS/Xray-core · error

invalid "shortId":

Error message

invalid "shortId": 

What it means

Error "invalid "shortId": " thrown in XTLS/Xray-core.

Source

Thrown at infra/conf/transport_security.go:207

		}
		if c.Password != "" {
			c.PublicKey = c.Password
		}
		if c.PublicKey == "" {
			return nil, errors.New(`empty "password"`)
		}
		if config.PublicKey, err = base64.RawURLEncoding.DecodeString(c.PublicKey); err != nil || len(config.PublicKey) != 32 {
			return nil, errors.New(`invalid "password": `, c.PublicKey)
		}
		if len(c.ShortIds) != 0 {
			return nil, errors.New(`non-empty "shortIds", please use "shortId" instead`)
		}
		if len(c.ShortId) > 16 {
			return nil, errors.New(`too long "shortId": `, c.ShortId)
		}
		config.ShortId = make([]byte, 8)
		if _, err = hex.Decode(config.ShortId, []byte(c.ShortId)); err != nil {
			return nil, errors.New(`invalid "shortId": `, c.ShortId)
		}
		if c.Mldsa65Verify != "" {
			if config.Mldsa65Verify, err = base64.RawURLEncoding.DecodeString(c.Mldsa65Verify); err != nil || len(config.Mldsa65Verify) != 1952 {
				return nil, errors.New(`invalid "mldsa65Verify": `, c.Mldsa65Verify)
			}
		}
		if c.SpiderX == "" {
			c.SpiderX = "/"
		}
		if c.SpiderX[0] != '/' {
			return nil, errors.New(`invalid "spiderX": `, c.SpiderX)
		}
		config.SpiderY = make([]int64, 10)
		u, _ := url.Parse(c.SpiderX)
		q := u.Query()
		parse := func(param string, index int) {
			if q.Get(param) != "" {
				s := strings.Split(q.Get(param), "-")

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at infra/conf/transport_security.go:207 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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