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Does the secure_base_url ever change?
posted by Richard SchiksSTAFFMOD on March 6, 2017 at 3:48 AM
I always ask nicely for the configuration (using the method /configuration?api_key={}) and store the secure_base_url property.
In my experience it always returns: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/".
Does this ever change? I mean, if it does not change, I could better store it as default. It saves a query and some time. I can't remember ever seeing a different value.
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 6, 2017 at 11:47 AM
It hasn't recently, no but it has in the past yes. It's your call, I recommend people cache the data for a few weeks at a time at least. The last time it was changed there were people who weren't keeping a cached record around and ended up with a bad reference that eventually started to fail.
Reply by Richard Schiks
on March 7, 2017 at 3:34 AM
Ok, thanks for your input!