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Re: [yws-flickr] Recent breakage

Hi, Dave. A couple of weeks ago I was having what sounds like a similar problem. Authentication that was working stopped working. The problem at the time (if I'm remembering correctly) was that database replication at Flickr was just slow that day and the frob hadn't replicated yet.

My solution was this: if I get an invalid frob my app just waits a few seconds and tries it again. It usually goes through the second time and it gives up after three tries.

On Nov 13, 2007 9:26 AM, Dave Winer < dave.winer@...> wrote:
I've seen a fair amount of breakage recently in my apps that connect
to the Flickr API that depend on authentication. Not sure what the
root cause is, but I'm pretty stuck and could use some help.

http://www.scripting.com/2007/11/12.html#getFrobProb

It could of course be the result of me not understanding frobs and
tokens, though the code did work before.

I tried an experiment with the Flickr API Explorer and it failed the
same way my code is failing, with various messages that say I have an
invalid token or frob.

Has something changed recently behind the Flickr API?

Grasping at straws here, I've put in about 24 hours so far trying to
figure out how to *approach* the problem, but haven't gotten anywhere.

All this code used to work, for months...

I just tried uploading a picture in some production code, and it's
broken too.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Dave






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Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:55 pm

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I've seen a fair amount of breakage recently in my apps that connect to the Flickr API that depend on authentication. Not sure what the root cause is, but I'm...
Dave Winer
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Nov 13, 2007
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Hi, Dave. A couple of weeks ago I was having what sounds like a similar problem. Authentication that was working stopped working. The problem at the time (if...
John Watson
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Nov 13, 2007
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Your suggestion worked... http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/11/13/stillFumblingAroundWithFli.html Thanks! Dave ... problem at the ... Flickr ... and it...
Dave Winer
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Nov 14, 2007
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