[Python-modules-team] Bug#747849: python-gdata: Getting contacts fails after Google forces SSL

Mon May 12 07:27:41 UTC 2014

Package: python-gdata
Version: 2.0.18+dfsg-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

Trying to access contacts in python, this error now pops up:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gdata/contacts/service.py", line 104, in GetContactsFeed
    return self.Get(uri, converter=gdata.contacts.ContactsFeedFromString)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gdata/service.py", line 1107, in Get
    'reason': server_response.reason, 'body': result_body}
gdata.service.RequestError: {'status': 301, 'body': '<HTML>\n<HEAD>\n<TITLE>Moved Permanently</TITLE>\n</HEAD>\n<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000">\n<H1>Moved Permanently</H1>\nThe document has moved <A HREF="https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full?max-results=1000">here</A>.\n</BODY>\n</HTML>\n', 'reason': 'Moved Permanently'}

The reason for that appears to be that Google is now forcing HTTPS and has therefore placed a 301 redirect at the original URI, which the script doesn't handle correctly.
(See upstream bug report here: https://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/issues/detail?id=693 )

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages python-gdata depends on:
ii  python         2.7.5-5
ii  python-crypto  2.6.1-4

python-gdata recommends no packages.

Versions of packages python-gdata suggests:
pn  python-gdata-doc  <none>

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