[Blink] google contacts not working in version 0.8.0

[Christoph Papke]

Hi Dan,

thanks for your great work. I'm looking forward to the new release.

Best regards

Christoph
 Am 15.04.2014 16:31 schrieb "Dan Pascu" <dan at ag-projects.com>:

>
> On 15 Apr 2014, at 12:19, Christoph Papke wrote:
>
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > I have deleted the file and configured my google account again, but I
> still doesn't work.
> >
> > This is the content of the google_contacts file:
> > ----------------
> > ccopy_reg
> > _reconstructor
> > p1
> > (cblink.contacts
> > GoogleContactsList
> > p2
> > c__builtin__
> > object
> > p3
> > NtRp4
> > (dp5
> > S'timestamp'
> > p6
> > NsS'_contact_map'
> > p7
> > (dp8
> > sb.
> > ----------------
> >
> > Is this the standard layout of this file? Strange.
>
> Yes, the file looks fine (it's stored as a python pickle and that's how
> they look like). I was able to reproduce this. The reason I didn't see it
> before was that I already had a google_contacts cache and it was used when
> it failed to fetch the data.
>
> I found the reason and to be honest I'm both baffled and worried. It seems
> that Google has finally disabled non-secure (i.e. plain http) access to
> their platforms when fetching contacts, while their contacts API, was
> hardcoded to use http. While the API seems to support https too, there is
> no means for an application using the API to ask the API to use https,
> other than modifying the API's code to change the hardcoded default. I'm
> baffled because Google seems to push towards secure connections when
> accessing their services, yet they provide an API to access their services
> which is hardcoded to non-secure. Had this incident not happened, it would
> have never crossed my mind that the Google API we use is hardcoded to be
> insecure.
>
> I fixed this and we'll make a new release shortly. Thanks for finding and
> reporting this issue.
>
> --
> Dan
>
>
>
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