Unable to add Gallery2 gallery to F-Spot

[UrsusExplorans]

Binary package hint: f-spot

It is impossible to problem access Gallery2 (2.3.1) with Remote plugin (1.0.18 and enabled) via F-Spot (0.6.1.5-ubuntu1) on Ubuntu 9.10.

When accessing the Gallery with such information:
gallery name: Gallery
URL: http://mydomain.de/gallery2/
username: admin
password: mypass

F-Spot says, that it cannot connect to a gallery for which the version is unknown. One should check that Remote plugin 1.0.8 or later is installed.

F-Spot started from a terminal with --debug says (when selecting an image):
[Debug 19:13:29.600] open uri = file:///home/juser/Pictures/2002/12/31/DSCN0937.jpg
error parsing 0000:00:00 00:00:00
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Argument is out of range.
Parameter name: Parameters describe an unrepresentable DateTime.
  at System.DateTime..ctor (Int32 year, Int32 month, Int32 day, Int32 hour, Int32 minute, Int32 second, Int32 millisecond) [0x00000]
  at System.DateTime..ctor (Int32 year, Int32 month, Int32 day, Int32 hour, Int32 minute, Int32 second) [0x00000]
  at FSpot.Tiff.DirectoryEntry.DateTimeFromString (System.String dt) [0x00000]
  at FSpot.Tiff.DirectoryEntry.get_ValueAsDate () [0x00000]
  at FSpot.Tiff.Header.SelectDirectory (FSpot.Tiff.ImageDirectory dir, StatementSink sink) [0x00000]

When trying to export the image, it says:
(/usr/lib/f-spot/f-spot.exe:10948): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
Detecting Gallery version
Detected: VersionUnknown
Detecting Gallery version
Detected: VersionUnknown

When extending the URL with /main.php (which exists in the Gallery2 installation), F-Spot pops up the following message:
"The following error was encountered while attempting to log in: Unhandled exception"

In the terminal it says:
(/usr/lib/f-spot/f-spot.exe:10948): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
Detecting Gallery version
Detected: Version2
Gallery created: GalleryRemote.Gallery2
Gallery2: Attempting to login

That is all what happens. The dialog with the login information is still there and in the plugin's maindialog no albums appear.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 22 19:28:32 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Package: f-spot 0.6.1.5-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
SourcePackage: f-spot
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686

[scott_selberg (sselberg)]

When F-Spot tries to connect, it tries to detect V2 by quering http://.../gallery_remote2.php and is expecting to get back "HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found". Ubuntu is currently returning "HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found" which doesn't match and the check errors out.

To work around. Create gallery_remote2.php in the gallery2 folder with the following

<?php
  header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
  exit;
?>