[Plugin: Posterous Importer] Fixed the plugin

Took a look, so you can put the .htaccess file back. Can’t say that I’m sure what’s going on there. My guess would be that maybe the core code that’s fetching the files doesn’t know how to deal with something about the way Posterous images are pulled from amazon’s storage service. Different server setups use different methods of fetching files depending on what’s available under the hood. I’d be curious to learn whether you have the curl library compiled into your php.

thanks dllh – i checked and curl is definitely running; see:

array(9) {
[“version_number”]=>
int(462597)
[“age”]=>
int(2)
[“features”]=>
int(1597)
[“ssl_version_number”]=>
int(0)
[“version”]=>
string(6) “7.15.5”
[“host”]=>
string(23) “x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu”
[“ssl_version”]=>
string(15) ” OpenSSL/0.9.8b”
[“libz_version”]=>
string(5) “1.2.3”
[“protocols”]=>
array(9) {
[0]=>
string(4) “tftp”
[1]=>
string(3) “ftp”
[2]=>
string(6) “telnet”
[3]=>
string(4) “dict”
[4]=>
string(4) “ldap”
[5]=>
string(4) “http”
[6]=>
string(4) “file”
[7]=>
string(5) “https”
[8]=>
string(4) “ftps”
}
}

what would you suggest i do from here?

Thanks for confirming the curl setup. The only thing I can figure out right now, based on this article, is that in some cases, the signature appended to requests for assets that redirect to amazon includes encoded strings (like %2F, which is a slash, and %3D, which is an equal sign) that are fouling with the download because the modified value doesn’t match what amazon’s expecting when it validates the signature. I’m trying to sort out a good way to handle this case but am so far having trouble debugging (it’s made harder by the fact that it’s inconsistent — ie, if I include one of your problem files in a Posterous post of my own, it imports ok because I’ve so far gotten lucky with the signatures).

Would it help if I added a user account for you on my site so that you can use my account for testing as you go?

Sure, if you’re willing to do that, I’ll give it a try. You can email me account details at daryl at automattic.com.

Great Daryl thanks. Mail sent!