Uploader-r93 fail to login on Ubuntu 8.10 - HTTP 500 Error

I also have this issue, I also see a 500 when browsing to https://api.rescuetime.com/api/handshake?<email address hidden>&password=foobar

Has the API address changed I wonder?

I've been hacking at the source all day and have discovered the problem.

In the test_connection() method the uploader tries to see if the API is online by checking https://api.rescuetime.com/api/handshake (with no parameters)

This generates a 500 error, which it obviously didn't used to (unless this code never worked)

I've altered my copy to instead check https://api.rescuetime.com/hello which will solve your problem

Very simple patch, i've implemented it as follows:

def test_connect(self):
             try:
- request = urllib2.Request(RESCUETIME_API_URL);
+ request = urllib2.Request("https://api.rescuetime.com/hello");

It's a hack but it works until a proper fix using some nice RESCUETIME_API variables is out.

I also have proxy issues but with this fix I can run the uploader fine using 'proxychains' and a SOCKS5 tunnel.

It would be really nice to see some proper HTTP and HTTPs proxy support in the app itself/python

Your solution fixed login problem - hope that everything will be all right now :)

Thank you very much!

I believe this was fixed before rev 93.

I made the change and it seems to have gotten rid of the HTTPError 500 but it is still failing on the test_connection() function but now it's due to a 404 error. Does the API site like to go down every once in a while?? The API URL in 93 is https://api.rescuetime.com/api.. Any help would be greatly apprecaited.