Bugzilla – Bug 14638
Flickr setup
Last modified: 2009-10-09 19:50:19 UTC
Flickr will not setup correctly when using Firefox on a Linux machine (applies to both FC8 and FC10.) Setting up Flickr starts OK at mysqueezebox.com and opens a Flickr web page. Flickr correctly adds mysqueezebox.com as an authorized link. However, when you return to mysqueezebox.com, you are asked to press a button to "Complete Authorization." The browser's "wait" symbol appears and remains (have waited up to an hour.) If you cancel or reload the web page, the link has not been completed. This process was repeated a number of times with the same results. On a lark, I tried running the Flickr setup with Internet Explorer on a XP machine. This worked properly the first time and my Flickr photos can now be viewed on the Duet controller. (I had random access to Flickr photos before that, so it was just the link to my personal Flickr account that was an issue.) I'm not sure if this is just a Firefox issue or somehow also involves Linux. However, the issue does not seem to be at the Flickr end. I can use FF/Linux and my Flickr page shows mysqueezebox.com as an authorized link. It is only when one clicks on "Complete Authorization" back at the mysqueezebox.com web page while using FF/Linux that it goes into limbo. I wonder if mysqueezebox.com has an IE-only script running that Firefox cannot handle? I'd think that since Squeezebox Server is a multiple OS program, this Flickr problem should likely be considered a bug that needs fixing.
Anoop to try to reproduce. Thanks for the detailed report Mitch.
I'm using Firefox 3.5 and while I don't get 'limbo', after returning from Flickr I don't have any way to enter account credentials on the Flickr configuration page of mysb.com.
I was fully able to reproduce this with Ubuntu 9.04 and Firefox. Is this you Matt Mar?
Either Andy or Michael ::tosses a coin:: assigning to Michael.
What FF version are you running on those systems?
Michael, per your inquiry, I'm running Firefox 3.0.14 on the FC10 PC and Firefox 2.0019 on the FC8 box. Results were exactly the same for either.
Andy - do you see anything in the logs? Tried to reproduce it with my local test instance, but the problem would not occur. On production I get "HTTP Error 411 - Length required" returned by http://www.mysqueezebox.com/user/account/flickr/authorize_complete
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #7614 to the network repo by michael == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/network?view=revision&revision=7614 == Fixed Bug: 14638 +1 Description: we were getting a "HTTP Error 411 - Length required" as we POSTed an empty form. For whatever reason FF on Linux doesn't like this, while it's ok on other browsers and platforms. Good news is: we don't need to POST, as there's nothing in our form anyway. Use simple GET request to the target url instead. Andy - could you please roll out this change? Thanks!
This bug has been fixed in the latest release of MySqueezeBox.com (formerly known as SqueezeNetwork) Check out the new site, if you haven't already. If you are still experiencing this problem, feel free to reopen the bug with your new comments and we'll have another look.
Just confirming that this is fixed for my Firefox/Linux combo. Adding my Flickr account link to mysqueezebox.com now works correctly. Thanks for your speedy work.