Would love to try using Smugmanager, but can't get past this error message;
Login failed: Error #18: invalid API key
Logging in using my e-mail and password, but to no avail!
If anybody can provide the magic answer, i'd be most appreciative.
cheers,
mark
The API key for the program is still valid, do you have any empty spaces in your login info?
Try using a clean profile in firefox. You can use a shortcut like "firefox.exe -profilemanager" to create a new profile.
The API key for the program is still valid, do you have any empty spaces in your login info?
Try using a clean profile in firefox. You can use a shortcut like "firefox.exe -profilemanager" to create a new profile.
Thanks for the response.
a) no, no spaces in login info. login info is just a standard e-mail address: photos[at]thedavies[dot]ca
b) are any particular characters disallowed in passwords (i've got a hash (#) character) in there
c) will try the clean pofile as soon as my photo download completes ;-)
a) no, no spaces in login info. login info is just a standard e-mail address: photos[at]thedavies[dot]ca
b) are any particular characters disallowed in passwords (i've got a hash (#) character) in there
c) will try the clean pofile as soon as my photo download completes ;-)
a) no, no spaces in login info. login info is just a standard e-mail address: photos[at]thedavies[dot]ca
b) are any particular characters disallowed in passwords (i've got a hash (#) character) in there
c) will try the clean pofile as soon as my photo download completes ;-)
thanks!
mark
a) good, make sure there are no spaces after the .ca
b) actually a really good question, if smugmug allows it then the extension should pass it just fine.
c) too bad, I thought maybe something got corrupted.
the reason I asked you to check these is that the way login is done is via posting a concatenated string value to an address and digesting the response. The variables in this string are based on the provided login information, should one of these be missing the string, the string is broken. However, there are checks in place so that empty fields are not allowed, but spaces in the information would break the string as well.
I don't want to assume anything, but a possibility is to try the extension on a different computer/location. This will help narrow down where the error might be coming from.
I don't suppose there is anyone interested in programming a version of this for Opera? That would be fantastic!1 After all, Opera did get the top browser award!
Or if not for Opera a smugmug widget for Yahoo Widget would be cool also!
Edit: I'm downloading different widgets for the Yahoo toolbar, and there are all kinds of plugins to grab images from various galleries from Flickr and other places. Anyone ever programmed one of these? I'd love to have one for SmugMug to display pictures from my galleries randomly on my screen.
Would love to try using Smugmanager, but can't get past this error message;
Login failed: Error #18: invalid API key
Logging in using my e-mail and password, but to no avail!
If anybody can provide the magic answer, i'd be most appreciative.
cheers,
mark
Finally figured out the issue (after having some spare time at work to waste on it).
The sending of a '#' in a password causes either the application or API to reject it. My money's on the API, as it does indeed return a result (via Ethereal & through a browser), but as error #18.
So, don't use hash marks in your passwords when using this extension!
SmugManager is great -- makes my life a little easier.
Even better would be if under Control Panel, you added links for Comments and Today's comments. I'm not familiar enough with Firefox internals to hack this in myself, so I just added some Bookmarks.
Speaking of which, any reason why the Bookmarks dialogue can't include a "Bookmark this page" button? It's a little cumbersome to have to cancel, go back and copy the URL if it's too long to type.
Also, I don't know if Co-Branding is the right option under Customization. Unfortunately the "right" option is redundant: Customization->Customization. But hey, you have Control Panel->Control Panel, so it's not completely out of place.
Even better would be if under Control Panel, you added links for Comments and Today's comments. I'm not familiar enough with Firefox internals to hack this in myself, so I just added some Bookmarks.
Not a hard thing to implement really, just a few lines of code. I'll look into it, maybe I'll look into adding news as well.
Speaking of which, any reason why the Bookmarks dialogue can't include a "Bookmark this page" button? It's a little cumbersome to have to cancel, go back and copy the URL if it's too long to type.
Well, I probably considered it at some point. My intention with the bookmarks was to have a place to link to private galleries, test pages, stuff that you don't cluttering you regular bookmarks but that you'd like easy access to, I personally like having my Statcounter and Dgrin links here. This is also not that hard to implement, I'll have a look-see.
Also, I don't know if Co-Branding is the right option under Customization. Unfortunately the "right" option is redundant: Customization->Customization. But hey, you have Control Panel->Control Panel, so it's not completely out of place.
Customizing is Co-Branding, I think the term "Co-Branding" has sort of died off over time. It would make more sense to rename "Co-Branding" to "Customization Settings".
There was no real way around the Control Panel redundancy, I had to compromise there.
I've been a bad boy. For quite a long time I've stopped using smugmanager, and I want to go back!
But I can't get it to work. No matter what I do it won't log in, and it stays stuck on just one site.
What's a feller to do?
Weird -- I just installed it on my work laptop for the first time, and it's acting wiggy -- I think login worked *once*, but has not worked again since. I had three Pro sites configured, one w/ a Guest Password. Removed that one. Still having problems. Very odd.
Windows XP Pro Version 2002, SP 2 - Firefox 2.0.0.8
I wonder if SmugMug changed something on the backend that broke things.
--Darryl
P.S. Tested on previously working laptop (similar config), same problem -- selecting different Accounts works, but Login/Logout doesn't work. Also fails similarly on OS X 10.4.10 (Tiger) with Firefox 2.0.0.8 there. :-{
I suppose it some sort of record that nothing has broken for so long.
At the moment the only thing I can think of is that the API 1.1.1 that I originally used with the plugin is no longer supported. I'll update that to (1.2.0) in the code but testing might have to wait until I'm home.
I'll keep you al posted on progress.
Jav
Edit: OK taking a closer look I think the issue goes a little deeper, when I use the login API method and redirect the user to the home page, the logged in user cookies are not created. I'm going to try an alternate method, wish me luck.
At the moment the only thing I can think of is that the API 1.1.1 that I originally used with the plugin is no longer supported. I'll update that to (1.2.0) in the code but testing might have to wait until I'm home.
I'll keep you al posted on progress.
Jav
Edit: OK taking a closer look I think the issue goes a little deeper, when I use the login API method and redirect the user to the home page, the logged in user cookies are not created. I'm going to try an alternate method, wish me luck.
Javier,
API 1.1.1 is still operational and I have just confirmed that API login methods are correctly setting cookies.
API 1.1.1 is still operational and I have just confirmed that API login methods are correctly setting cookies.
Cheers,
David
Thanks, then it's definitely on the login methodology, I would love to be able to use the smugmug.com/login.mg to perform this, or at least fill in the fields automatically.
I don't know what was causing some folks to have trouble logging in. I myself have no problems logging in (or out) here at home. If anyone else has troubles let me know, I don't have a lot of free time to spen on this but I promise I'll look into it.
One thing to note is, after login in, it might not immediately appear as if you're logged in succesfully. That is, until you load a different page on the website.
I don't know what was causing some folks to have trouble logging in. I myself have no problems logging in (or out) here at home. If anyone else has troubles let me know, I don't have a lot of free time to spen on this but I promise I'll look into it.
One thing to note is, after login in, it might not immediately appear as if you're logged in succesfully. That is, until you load a different page on the website.
cheers all,
I'm having the problem, and after I log in, I'll click "Your Photos" and I'm taken to the wrong account. I'm on Leopard, 10.5, fully updated FF.
Awesome! I just installed SmugManager....it's fan-tastic! I can't believe how much faster it gets me to my control panel, etc. Thanks Javier for all the hard work you put into this. I can't wait to really utilize it!
1) Make sure to select the active account on the "Select Account" drop-down or the "Accounts" page.
2) Make sure your info in properly filled in for the accounts.
3) The extension should automatically forward you to the homepage for the account you logged into.
1) Yup.
2) Done.
3) It forwards me to the account after I choose Select Account, but it's not logged in. I try logout/login, and every combination I can think of, but it just does not affect the login status.
3) It forwards me to the account after I choose Select Account, but it's not logged in. I try logout/login, and every combination I can think of, but it just does not affect the login status.
after you login, do you get the icon on the bottom right telling you that you're logged in?
after you login, have you tried navigating to a page other than your homepage?
can you check your cookies to make sure that under your custom hostname (if any) you have a cookie named SMSESS and under smumug.com you have SMSESS, SNAPP and SHOTT, after you have logged in and navigated to another page from your homepage.
after you login, do you get the icon on the bottom right telling you that you're logged in?
after you login, have you tried navigating to a page other than your homepage?
can you check your cookies to make sure that under your custom hostname (if any) you have a cookie named SMSESS and under smumug.com you have SMSESS, SNAPP and SHOTT, after you have logged in and navigated to another page from your homepage.
Yes, I get the icon, but it lies.
Yes, I have navigated to other pages, no go.
I don't have a cname, but I will try deleting my cookies. Can't hurt, eh?
Here's a great example. This site only has private galleries. I've logged in/out, done everything I could think of. It tells me I'm logged in, but I'm not:
Here's a great example. This site only has private galleries. I've logged in/out, done everything I could think of. It tells me I'm logged in, but I'm not:
Looks like the necessary cookies are not being created.
Since the icon on the bottom right is appearing, the API call is being completed sucessfully. Aside from that, cookie creation is handled when the smugmug homepage is loaded (not as a function of the toolbar).
a difficult issue. I can't see why the cookies aren't being generated.
Thanks so much for your patience. Your last post got me to dig around in my cookies prefs a bit more, and I found that I was blocking cookies from api.smugmug.com, for some unknown reason. I deleted that, and it's working like a charm!
(any idea how that could get set without my knowin? )
Thanks so much for your patience. Your last post got me to dig around in my cookies prefs a bit more, and I found that I was blocking cookies from api.smugmug.com, for some unknown reason. I deleted that, and it's working like a charm!
(any idea how that could get set without my knowin? )
None, but I'm very happy that this worked for you.
Comments
check now... it was just a capitalization mismatch
Creator of: SmugManager
"There's no dark side or the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark..."
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Hi all,
Would love to try using Smugmanager, but can't get past this error message;
Login failed: Error #18: invalid API key
Logging in using my e-mail and password, but to no avail!
If anybody can provide the magic answer, i'd be most appreciative.
cheers,
mark
The API key for the program is still valid, do you have any empty spaces in your login info?
Try using a clean profile in firefox. You can use a shortcut like "firefox.exe -profilemanager" to create a new profile.
Creator of: SmugManager
"There's no dark side or the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark..."
Thanks for the response.
a) no, no spaces in login info. login info is just a standard e-mail address: photos[at]thedavies[dot]ca
b) are any particular characters disallowed in passwords (i've got a hash (#) character) in there
c) will try the clean pofile as soon as my photo download completes ;-)
thanks!
mark
tried option 'c', but no success either
a) good, make sure there are no spaces after the .ca
b) actually a really good question, if smugmug allows it then the extension should pass it just fine.
c) too bad, I thought maybe something got corrupted.
the reason I asked you to check these is that the way login is done is via posting a concatenated string value to an address and digesting the response. The variables in this string are based on the provided login information, should one of these be missing the string, the string is broken. However, there are checks in place so that empty fields are not allowed, but spaces in the information would break the string as well.
I don't want to assume anything, but a possibility is to try the extension on a different computer/location. This will help narrow down where the error might be coming from.
Creator of: SmugManager
"There's no dark side or the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark..."
http://internet-browser-review.toptenreviews.com/
Or if not for Opera a smugmug widget for Yahoo Widget would be cool also!
Edit: I'm downloading different widgets for the Yahoo toolbar, and there are all kinds of plugins to grab images from various galleries from Flickr and other places. Anyone ever programmed one of these? I'd love to have one for SmugMug to display pictures from my galleries randomly on my screen.
Finally figured out the issue (after having some spare time at work to waste on it).
The sending of a '#' in a password causes either the application or API to reject it. My money's on the API, as it does indeed return a result (via Ethereal & through a browser), but as error #18.
So, don't use hash marks in your passwords when using this extension!
SmugManager is great -- makes my life a little easier.
Even better would be if under Control Panel, you added links for Comments and Today's comments. I'm not familiar enough with Firefox internals to hack this in myself, so I just added some Bookmarks.
Speaking of which, any reason why the Bookmarks dialogue can't include a "Bookmark this page" button? It's a little cumbersome to have to cancel, go back and copy the URL if it's too long to type.
Also, I don't know if Co-Branding is the right option under Customization. Unfortunately the "right" option is redundant: Customization->Customization. But hey, you have Control Panel->Control Panel, so it's not completely out of place.
But anyways, thanks for a great tool!!
--Darryl
Not a hard thing to implement really, just a few lines of code. I'll look into it, maybe I'll look into adding news as well.
Well, I probably considered it at some point. My intention with the bookmarks was to have a place to link to private galleries, test pages, stuff that you don't cluttering you regular bookmarks but that you'd like easy access to, I personally like having my Statcounter and Dgrin links here. This is also not that hard to implement, I'll have a look-see.
Customizing is Co-Branding, I think the term "Co-Branding" has sort of died off over time. It would make more sense to rename "Co-Branding" to "Customization Settings".
There was no real way around the Control Panel redundancy, I had to compromise there.
Creator of: SmugManager
"There's no dark side or the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark..."
I've been a bad boy. For quite a long time I've stopped using smugmanager, and I want to go back!
But I can't get it to work. No matter what I do it won't log in, and it stays stuck on just one site.
What's a feller to do?
Dgrin FAQ | Me | Workshops
Weird -- I just installed it on my work laptop for the first time, and it's acting wiggy -- I think login worked *once*, but has not worked again since. I had three Pro sites configured, one w/ a Guest Password. Removed that one. Still having problems. Very odd.
Windows XP Pro Version 2002, SP 2 - Firefox 2.0.0.8
I wonder if SmugMug changed something on the backend that broke things.
--Darryl
P.S. Tested on previously working laptop (similar config), same problem -- selecting different Accounts works, but Login/Logout doesn't work. Also fails similarly on OS X 10.4.10 (Tiger) with Firefox 2.0.0.8 there. :-{
I suppose it some sort of record that nothing has broken for so long.
At the moment the only thing I can think of is that the API 1.1.1 that I originally used with the plugin is no longer supported. I'll update that to (1.2.0) in the code but testing might have to wait until I'm home.
I'll keep you al posted on progress.
Jav
Edit: OK taking a closer look I think the issue goes a little deeper, when I use the login API method and redirect the user to the home page, the logged in user cookies are not created. I'm going to try an alternate method, wish me luck.
Creator of: SmugManager
"There's no dark side or the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark..."
Javier,
API 1.1.1 is still operational and I have just confirmed that API login methods are correctly setting cookies.
Cheers,
David
SmugMug API Developer
My Photos
Thanks, then it's definitely on the login methodology, I would love to be able to use the smugmug.com/login.mg to perform this, or at least fill in the fields automatically.
I tried doing but only the username field gets filled in on the form.
Creator of: SmugManager
"There's no dark side or the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark..."
One thing to note is, after login in, it might not immediately appear as if you're logged in succesfully. That is, until you load a different page on the website.
cheers all,
Creator of: SmugManager
"There's no dark side or the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark..."
I'm having the problem, and after I log in, I'll click "Your Photos" and I'm taken to the wrong account. I'm on Leopard, 10.5, fully updated FF.
Dgrin FAQ | Me | Workshops
1) Make sure to select the active account on the "Select Account" drop-down or the "Accounts" page.
2) Make sure your info in properly filled in for the accounts.
3) The extension should automatically forward you to the homepage for the account you logged into.
Creator of: SmugManager
"There's no dark side or the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark..."
1) Yup.
2) Done.
3) It forwards me to the account after I choose Select Account, but it's not logged in. I try logout/login, and every combination I can think of, but it just does not affect the login status.
Dgrin FAQ | Me | Workshops
after you login, do you get the icon on the bottom right telling you that you're logged in?
after you login, have you tried navigating to a page other than your homepage?
can you check your cookies to make sure that under your custom hostname (if any) you have a cookie named SMSESS and under smumug.com you have SMSESS, SNAPP and SHOTT, after you have logged in and navigated to another page from your homepage.
Creator of: SmugManager
"There's no dark side or the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark..."
Yes, I get the icon, but it lies.
Yes, I have navigated to other pages, no go.
I don't have a cname, but I will try deleting my cookies. Can't hurt, eh?
Dgrin FAQ | Me | Workshops
Here's a great example. This site only has private galleries. I've logged in/out, done everything I could think of. It tells me I'm logged in, but I'm not:
Dgrin FAQ | Me | Workshops
After you cleared cookies.
1) log in
2) check to see if cookies are created.
Creator of: SmugManager
"There's no dark side or the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark..."
Dgrin FAQ | Me | Workshops
Looks like the necessary cookies are not being created.
Since the icon on the bottom right is appearing, the API call is being completed sucessfully. Aside from that, cookie creation is handled when the smugmug homepage is loaded (not as a function of the toolbar).
a difficult issue. I can't see why the cookies aren't being generated.
Creator of: SmugManager
"There's no dark side or the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark..."
Thanks so much for your patience. Your last post got me to dig around in my cookies prefs a bit more, and I found that I was blocking cookies from api.smugmug.com, for some unknown reason. I deleted that, and it's working like a charm!
(any idea how that could get set without my knowin?
Dgrin FAQ | Me | Workshops
None, but I'm very happy that this worked for you.
Creator of: SmugManager
"There's no dark side or the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark..."
Yes!!!
With 4 accounts that I need to able to log into, it's a lifesaver.
Edit: your nav buttons on your smugmanager page include broken links (photo not found).
Dgrin FAQ | Me | Workshops