[R] RGoogleDocs stopped working

[Duncan Temple Lang]

Hi Harlan

 I just tried to connect to Google Docs and I had ostensibly the same problem.
However, the password was actually different from what I had specified.
After resetting it with GoogleDocs, the getGoogleDocsConnection() worked
fine. So I don't doubt that the login and password are correct, but
you might just try it again to ensure there are no typos.
The other thing to look at is the values for Email and Passwd
sent in the URL, i.e. the string in url in your debugging
below. (Thanks for that by the way). If either has special characters,
e.g. &, it is imperative that they are escaped correctly, i.e. converted
to %24.  This should happen and nothing should have changed, but it is
worth verifying.

 So things still seem to work for me. It is a data point, but not one
that gives you much of a clue as to what is wrong on your machine.

  D.

On 11/10/10 7:36 AM, Harlan Harris wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Some code using RGoogleDocs, which had been working smoothly since the
> summer, just stopped working. I know that it worked on November 3rd, but it
> doesn't work today. I've confirmed that the login and password still work
> when I log in manually. I've confirmed that the URL gives the same error
> when I paste it into Firefox. I don't know enough about this web service to
> figure out the problem myself, alas...
> 
> Here's the error and other info (login/password omitted):
> 
>> ss.con <- getGoogleDocsConnection(login=gd.login, password=gd.password,
> service='wise', error=FALSE)
> Error: Forbidden
> 
> Enter a frame number, or 0 to exit
> 
> 1: getGoogleDocsConnection(login = gd.login, password = gd.password, service
> = "wise", error = FALSE)
> 2: getGoogleAuth(..., error = error)
> 3: getForm("https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin", accountType =
> "HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE", Email = login, Passw
> 4: getURLContent(uri, .opts = .opts, .encoding = .encoding, binary = binary,
> curl = curl)
> 5: stop.if.HTTP.error(http.header)
> 
> Selection: 4
> Called from: eval(expr, envir, enclos)
> Browse[1]> http.header
>                    Content-Type
> Cache-control                          Pragma
>                    "text/plain"            "no-cache,
> no-store"                      "no-cache"
>                         Expires                            Date
> X-Content-Type-Options
> "Mon, 01-Jan-1990 00:00:00 GMT" "Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:24:39
> GMT"                       "nosniff"
>                X-XSS-Protection
> Content-Length                          Server
>                 "1; mode=block"
> "24"                           "GSE"
>                          status                   statusMessage
>                           "403"                 "Forbidden\r\n"
> Browse[1]> url
> [1] "
> https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin?accountType=HOSTED%5FOR%5FGOOGLE&Email=***&Passwd=***&service=wise&source=R%2DGoogleDocs%2D0%2E1
> "
> Browse[1]> .opts
> $ssl.verifypeer
> [1] FALSE
> 
> 
>> R.Version()
> $platform
> [1] "i386-apple-darwin9.8.0"
> 
> $arch
> [1] "i386"
> 
> $os
> [1] "darwin9.8.0"
> 
> $system
> [1] "i386, darwin9.8.0"
> 
> $status
> [1] ""
> 
> $major
> [1] "2"
> 
> $minor
> [1] "10.1"
> 
> $year
> [1] "2009"
> 
> $month
> [1] "12"
> 
> $day
> [1] "14"
> 
> $`svn rev`
> [1] "50720"
> 
> $language
> [1] "R"
> 
> $version.string
> [1] "R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)"
> 
> 
>> installed.packages()[c('RCurl', 'RGoogleDocs'), ]
>             Package
> LibPath                                             Version Priority Bundle
> Contains
> RCurl       "RCurl"
> "/Users/hharris/Library/R/2.10/library"             "1.4-3" NA       NA
> NA
> RGoogleDocs "RGoogleDocs"
> "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library" "0.4-1" NA       NA
> NA
>             Depends                         Imports LinkingTo Suggests
> Enhances OS_type License Built
> RCurl       "R (>= 2.7.0), methods, bitops" NA      NA        "Rcompression"
> NA       NA      "BSD"   "2.10.1"
> RGoogleDocs "RCurl, XML, methods"           NA      NA        NA
> NA       NA      "BSD"   "2.10.1"
> 
> 
> Any ideas? Thank you!
> 
>  -Harlan
> 
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