Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

[Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:21 AM, BRM <bm_witness@yahoo.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----
>
>> Joshua Murphy wrote:
>> > Well, glancing at the GET request it's making  there, as well as the
>> > API google points me to when I look it  up...
>> >
>> >  http://developer.yahoo.com/messenger/guide/ch03s02.html#d4e4628
>> >
>> >  You're right that it's after an image from their profile, but the
>> > cause  of the failure appears to be related to some sort of credentials
>> > Yahoo  wants the messenger to provide. You might poke Kopete's
>> > bugtracker to  see if they've a related bug on file already, and if
>> > they don't, throw  one their way.
>> >
>> > The API Yahoo appears to be using there (based on  a response I got
>> > back in poking lightly) is, or is based on, OAuth,  which according to
>> > this:
>> >
>> >  http://oauth.net/core/1.0/#http_codes
>> >
>> > specifies that a request  should give a 401 response (Authorization
>> > Required vs Unauthorized is  purely the choice of phrase used in the
>> > program decoding the numerical  code, i.e. wireshark in your example of
>> > it there) in the following  cases:
>> >
>> > HTTP 401 Unauthorized
>> >    * Invalid  Consumer Key
>> >    * Invalid / expired Token
>> >     * Invalid signature
>> >    * Invalid / used nonce
>> >
>> >  Yahoo, essentially, *does* give a "bugger off"!! with that response,
>> > but  Kopete simply takes it, considers it a brief instant, then decides
>> >  "Maybe the answer will change if I try again *now*!"... at which point
>> >  it proceeds to introduce its proverbial cranium to the proverbial
>> > brick  and mortar vertical surface one might term "the wall."
>> >  Repeatedly.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> I was sort of figuring that it  was trying to get something and Yahoo
>> wasn't liking it.  At least now  we know for sure.
>>
>> I went to bug.kde and searched but I didn't see  anything.  Of course,
>> I'm not really sure what the heck to look for  since I don't know what is
>> failing, other than  Kopete.
>
> Best bet would probably be to check with the Kopete devs on IRC or mailing list
> (kopete-devel).
>
> Ben

Yep, but... just from a glance at their bug tracker and their commits
list... they made quite a few changes to the Yahoo plugin's handling
of avatars and such in January that're in 4.4... so their go-to answer
on Yahoo avatar related issues seems to be "Try it on 4.4, then come
back if it's still broken."

So... to save a little time and effort when that answer's thrown
around... might be best to test with that. I don't have QT or anything
that depends on it on any of my boxes (the only box I actually have X
on right now's my netbook, so adding's not even a feasable option) and
my yahoo account went dead a few years ago, so I'm not much use for
testing.

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Poison [BLX]
Joshua M. Murphy