Cowbell Tag Guess Function Fails To Connect to soap.amazon.com

[Stormdragon]

Binary package hint: cowbell

Using Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy with the version of cowbell installed with apt-get install cowbell.
When using the guess tags function either with CTRL+g or in the Misc menu. Cowbell shows a message about getting tag information and pops up an error:
The connection to soap.amazon.com failed. Please check your internet connection and try again.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Sep 7 17:26:47 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: cowbell 0.2.7.1-2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cowbell
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

What is your connection type ? Coult it be that you are behind a proxy ?

If yes, then mark it's a duplicate of bug #290297

[Stormdragon (stormdragon2976)]

Hi,
No proxy. Just a connection through a router to the internet. There's no password or special internet configuration at all. It's a wired connection.

[Stormdragon (stormdragon2976)]

Forgot to say... My connection is dsl.

[david (david-d)]

I have the same problem. I'm connected trough a router and its dsl too. My machine is on ethernet with dhcp.

[Jason R. (jasonl-raymond)]

The problem is likely because the Amazon Ecommerce Web Service 3.0 has been deprecated. See http://soap.amazon.com/onca/soap3. Migration instructions are provided which may permit the cowbell software to use the to use the 4.0 service.