python-flickrapi 1.2 cannot connect to Flickr at all (SSL required)

[Alexander-zayats]

Since recently Flickr requires all requests to be SSL-only.

Hence current version cannot communicate to Flickr anymore.

New FlickrAPI version 1.4 released June 18th solves this issue. See change log http://stuvel.eu/flickrapi/changelog

It would be great to have new version in repository.

Tech details:

# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04

# apt-cache policy python-flickrapi
python-flickrapi:
  Installed: 1.2-3
  Candidate: 1.2-3
  Version table:
 *** 1.2-3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Mary Gardiner (puzzlement)]

If a full version upgrade is not possible in a released version of Ubuntu, there's a one character change that allows 1.2 to use SSL:

--- /usr/share/pyshared/flickrapi/__init__.py 2008-09-21 06:50:43.000000000 +1000
+++ __init__.py 2014-07-06 09:56:32.000000000 +1000
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@
         if self.cache and self.cache.get(post_data):
             return self.cache.get(post_data)

- url = "http://" + FlickrAPI.flickr_host + FlickrAPI.flickr_rest_form
+ url = "https://" + FlickrAPI.flickr_host + FlickrAPI.flickr_rest_form
         flicksocket = urllib.urlopen(url, post_data)
         reply = flicksocket.read()
         flicksocket.close()

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python-flickrapi - 2.4-0.1

---------------
python-flickrapi (2.4-0.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * pypi archive does not contain any test, switch to GH
  * New upstream version 2.4 (Closes: #946767, LP: #1335350, LP: #1899404)
  * Switch to DebHelper 13
  * Replace nose by pytest (Closes: #1018496)
  * Add build-dep on six (Closes: #1073368)
  * Set Rules-Requires-Root: no
  * Remove old patches

 -- Alexandre Detiste <email address hidden> Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:03:46 +0200