Authentication impossible (improbable?)

[karbonik]

Running
Kubuntu 6.06
KDE 3.5.2
Kernel 2.6.15-26-386
Swiftfox (Firefox) as default browser.

When I launch Kflickr, and "Authenticate New User" it launches in a new browser tab:

file:///var/tmp/kdecache-karbonik/krun/24750.0.auth

which is somehow associated to the mplayer plugin in the browser.

After that, if I click Complete registration, I get the error message:

HTTP request to Flickr.com failed. (msg: Invalid frob)

If it is not a movie file, how do I get around this issue?

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

Running the same exact setup as you.

Using Konqueror > Successful, cannot reproduce bug.

Using Firefox > Successful, cannot reproduce bug.

I do not think the bug lies within Kubuntu or KFlickr, but more or less with Swiftfox. Can you still reproduce this bug?

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

I am closing this bug report due to no response in over a month concerning the issue. This issue was never duplicated by me on multiple machines. If you feel this is still an issue, please reopen this bug

[Brian Davidson (briankd)]

I think I'm experiencing symptoms of the same 'bug'. It may not be a problem with kflickr programming, per se, but I have had no luck with searching the internet for a solution. As is reported above, clicking "Authenticate New User" then "Authorize..." does not open a browser window. In my case, it causes GEdit to open with a file. Hovering over the tab, it gives me the following information about the file:

Name: http://flickr.com/services/auth/?api_key=c0134cf226b1187e3d79e4e1be03d1bf&api_sig=1d8b63041545ef743bc2f83e8a2d315f&frob=72157602121473815-ee532ef41e3bab68-106251&perms=write
MIME Type: HTML document (text/html)
Encoding: Unicode (UTF-8)

The other weird thing about the file is that it has 6 blank lines before the first tag - "<DOCTYPE ...". My theory is that the file is coming down with some attribute that my Feisty system has not registered as belonging to Firefox (or Konqueror). I can't get my system to tell me what's missing from the picture.

Any ideas? Can you direct me to some resources that can help? If I find an answer, I'll report back here (or wherever you deem appropriate).

--Brian

[Andraz Brodnik (brodul)]

I got the same problem as Brian Davidson.

The link is opened with gedit instead with a web browser.

Using kflickr version 1.0 in Gnome on Karmic.

[JJMerelo (jjmerelo)]

Same problems here too, running from Ubuntu 9.xx at least and now reproduced in 11.04

[JJMerelo (jjmerelo)]

¡Found the solution!
it's a problem with the file associations in Konqueror. Fire up konqueror, go to Settings -> configure Konqueror -> File management -> File associations and move down gedit so that Konqueror or Firefox web browser (or any other) is above it.

Hope it helps

JJ

[TundraMan (asselsm)]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:35 PM, JJMerelo <email address hidden> wrote:
> ¡Found the solution!
> it's a problem with the file associations in Konqueror. Fire up konqueror, go to Settings -> configure Konqueror -> File management -> File associations and move down gedit so that Konqueror or Firefox web browser (or any other) is above it.
>
> Hope it helps

Nice. I will add this info to the wiki shortly. Good sleuthing, it is
appreciated.

Mark

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> JJ
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>  Authentication impossible (improbable?)
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[Lookone77 (lookone77)]

Hi all,
I have a problem that is similar to the one experienced by Brian, Andraz and JJMerelo, but in my case the authentication process open the Flickr login page using LibreOffice Calc. I've modified the file association using Ubuntu Tweek but without success.
I'm running on Ubuntu 11.04 and I've installed the 20100817 kFlickr version.
Have someone an idea about can I solve the problem?
Thanks.

Luca