Portfolio Export from Moodle fails

[Dan Marsden]

When exporting a file from the Assignment mod in Moodle 2.0 to Mahara via the portfolio plugin I get the following error in Moodle:
Failed to start communication with remote server: Payload not encryptedERROR 1:
1:Payload not encrypted

This seems to occur as the function send_content_ready returns an empty response...

tracing this further it seems to die in Mahara when the following call is made in add_artefacts() in import/file/lib.php

                $id = ArtefactTypeFile::save_file(
                    $uzd . $f->actualfilename,
                    $data,
                    $this->get('usrobj'),
                    true
                );

I haven't had a chance to see why that is failing - might get a chance on the weekend to look closer.

[Dan Marsden (danmarsden)]

traced slightly further to function new_file in artefact/file/lib.php

this call fails:
        if ($archive = ArtefactTypeArchive::new_archive($path, $data)) {

[Dan Marsden (danmarsden)]

issue occurs if PHP 5 is installed - new version of Pear class added here:
http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/613ae7c581c5976e69f95a526a3c0fb54d24f8d3
calls the new file PEAR5.php if php is installed and certain functions are being called (like is_tar)

fixed by adding the PEAR5.php file to master.

[Richard van Iwaarden (richardvi)]

I reported this again here: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-52112

Why is this bug affecting us with Moodle 3.11.2+ (Build: 20210812) and Mahara 21.04.0. Any ideas? Are we using the wrong PHP version? We are running PHP 7.4

[Robert Lyon (robertl-9)]

Hi Richard,

Looking at https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=231094 it sounds like the same error that you are getting.

Could it be a firewall / proxy issue between your Moodle and Mahara sites?

Cheers
Robert