[Haskell-cafe] haskell flickr bindings: "invalid signature" when uploading

[Dougal Stanton]

Yes, that seems to be the reasonable assumption though I can't find
any good changelogs for the api. Further investigation will have to
wait until after the weekend :-)

Cheers,

D

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Stuart Dootson
<stuart.dootson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10 Dec 2010, at 12:39 PM, Dougal Stanton <dougal at dougalstanton.net> wrote:
>
>> I've mailed the maintainer of the flickr api package but thought I
>> would see if other people had this experience too. Google doesn't
>> reveal many people using this package as far as I can tell.
>>
>> In short, authentication works fine but uploading images fails with
>> this message. This happens with the included examples/Uploader.hs as
>> well as my own code.
>>
>> toRequest: POST request contains 1 files; unable to represent as query string
>> Defaulting to multiform/form-data instead
>> Flickr error:
>>
>> Code: 96
>> Type: Flickr API error
>> Details: Invalid signature
>>
>> I haven't had a chance to dive deeper into this yet, but any advice
>> gratefully received.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> D
>> --
>> Dougal Stanton
>> dougal at dougalstanton.net // http://www.dougalstanton.net
>
> That wouldn't surprise me - I have a suspicion the Flickr API has changed since hs-flickr was released - certainly there are issues with things like getting full comment information out, for which I've made some mods within a local copy of hs-flickr, with a mind to push them sometime.
>
> Stuart Dootson



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Dougal Stanton
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