Flickr API error: SSL is required ?

Me too. Same message appeared on my photostream and Slickr Flickr without anything changing my end.

My site have the same problem.

In plugin settings it say: API Key not valid.

I’ve just requested another but it not works.

It’s because communation is sent to the http API address instead of https. Change all https://api.flickr.com/ adresses in the plugin to https://api.flickr.com/ – I believe Flickr recently closed the http API.

\flickr-photostream\phpFlickr\phpFlickr.php

lines 29-31

I’ve just modified that file.

Output in page where plugin is used is:

There was some problem figuring out your endpoint

– See more at: https://www.stefanozanardi.it/wp/gallery/events/test-album-flickr-privato/#sthash.XkAsz4r4.dpuf

Thanks

Yes Firsh is right but you also need to change line 211 https:// to https:// and that should work. ??

Hi everyone,

I still get the problem.. i already change line 29-31 & line 211..

please help… thanks

I confirm that changing line 29-31 & line 211 IT WORKS!!!

Thanks to everybody for support!

Stefano

Oh ok I didn’t catch that. Flickr sent me a mail, this might be of use to someone (the reason behind all this):

As you may have read on the Flickr code blog, we’ve updated all of the API endpoints to fully support SSL. You no longer need to use a special subdomain to access the API securely, and we want to make sure that all API communication adopts SSL.

Many of you have moved over to using SSL already, which is great! If you haven’t, it shouldn’t be much more work than updating your apps to call the API at: https://api.flickr.com/

We’ll be updating the blog with information as we get close to the switchover date, but here’s the most important info:

New API keys will be issued for HTTPS access only: as of 6 May 2014
First blackout test window: 3 June 2014, 10:00-12:00 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
Second blackout test window: 17 June 2014, 18:00-20:00 (PDT)
Non-SSL API deprecated: 27 June 2014, 10:00 (PDT)

During the blackout tests and after the 27th of June, calls to the Flickr API that are not over SSL will fail with an HTTP error code 403. We will also return an error message with (Flickr) code 95 and msg “SSL is required”.

Hello

I also still get the problem. I already change line 29-31 & line 211..

I change line 29-31 too

var $rest_endpoint = 'https://api.flickr.com/services/rest/';
var $upload_endpoint = 'https://api.flickr.com/services/upload/';
var $replace_endpoint = 'https://api.flickr.com/services/replace/';

and line 211

if ( !preg_match("|https://(.*?)(/.*)|", $url, $matches) ) {

please help… thanks

I also tried to change the lines, but it didn’t help. I found out that if i use the Api Key that you get here: https://www.flickr.com/services/api/explore/flickr.test.echo then the plugin works. But that api key changes and then it doesn’t work anymore. I don’t know what this key is and why it works while the keys I generated don’t. Regretfully I lack the skill to figure out what is wrong.

Same problem, plugin responses “API key is not valid”. Modifying the lines mentioned above doesn’t help. Any other idea? I’ve came across some other http calls. How about modifying one of those?

I also haven’t been able to figure this out. I’ve changed lines 29-31 as well as 211 in the “flickr-photostream/phpFlickr/phpFlickr.php” file in the plugin (the only place I could find any https://api.flickr instances). Now instead of giving me an API error on the page I’m attempting to use the plugin on, it says “no photos” despite there being photos in the set.

I hadn’t had my API key registered before this became an issue and I think that’s been my problem. I keep trying but despite changing the .php file I still can’t load my API key (it says “Invalid API” every time I try).

Any ideas as to how to get the API key to be recognized?

After changes of lines 29-31 and 211, i’ve requested another key on flickr, and then it works.

After changes of lines 29-31 and 211, i’ve requested another key on flickr, and then it works

I just tried it out. Unfortunately it is still not working for me. I hope there will be an Update of the Plug-in soon.

When I modify the settings in lines 29-31 / 211 and hit “Save changes” in the plugin settings, the page reload ends up in a timeout. Changes are not being saved. When I reenter the settings dialogue, there’s still the old ID entered. So even requesting a new code won’t help here.