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#110 CheckGmail broken. Error: 200 OK at login

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nobody
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2013-01-19
2013-01-18
momo
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When logging in, CheckGmail returns Error: 200 OK in the system tray icon and does not log in. No console error is printed.

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  • momo

    momo - 2013-01-19
    • priority: 5 --> 9
     
  • viking777

    viking777 - 2013-01-19

    I confirm that this exact same error affects me and several other users that I am aware of. The error started to appear on Friday Jan 18th and affects multiple distributions - I personally run three different distributions and all three are affected.

     
  • francesco serafini

    Confirmed!
    It looks like a further Google work. They already stopped UMPlayer from showing YouTube videos. The reason resides in advertising: if you don't use your browser they can't fill the own stuff with advertisements, increasingly nasty and aggressive. Originally Google was using advertisement to finance free software. Now they have reversed the own strategy: the new finality is making so much money as possible using free software. In other words they are in the reality a profit company masked as freeware company. Finally, now Google belongs to that kind of industry attempting to convert the earth in a paper ball.

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2013-01-19

    Started getting this error on 18th January, 2012 in Linux Mint Debian Edition. Have since updated using the svg checkout and noe the error has changed from "Error: 200 OK" to "Error: 401 Unauthorised". Running with the no cookies option provides a temporary fix.

     

    Last edit: Anonymous 2014-03-16
  • rvlander

    rvlander - 2013-01-20

    Same here! Starting same day.

     
  • saibal

    saibal - 2013-01-20

    +1

    same error. "-no_cookies" option is a fix but I lost all actions as delete, archive etc etc

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2013-01-21

    +1

    Same problem here since the same date. As indicated, the -no_cookies option will fix it temporarily but you can't perform actions (Delete message, Mark as read...) from your desktop anymore.

     
  • Syndrome Seven

    Syndrome Seven - 2013-01-21

    +1 Same issue here. Error 200 and exiting the application from the tray icon leaves the tray icon where it is and doesn't allow any further actions.

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2013-01-21

    Google have changed to URL from https://www.google.com/accounts/ to https://accounts.google.com/. To fix this, open a terminal and run...

    01. svn co https://checkgmail.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/checkgmail checkgmail
    02. cd checkgmail
    03. gedit checkgmail
    04. press ctrl-H to get the "replace" function
    05. in the "Search for:" box enter: [b]https://www.google.com/accounts/[/b]
    06. in the "Replace with:" box enter: [b]https://accounts.google.com/[/b]
    07. click "replace all", then "close"
    08. save file and close gedit
    09. test the updated version: ./checkgmail
    10. if all is well, run: sudo cp checkgmail /usr/bin/checkgmail

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2013-01-21

    NOTE: Ignore the formatting [b] and [/b] in my last comment! Those lines SHOULD read:

    05. in the "Search for:" box enter: https://www.google.com/accounts/
    06. in the "Replace with:" box enter: https://accounts.google.com/

     
  • Syndrome Seven

    Syndrome Seven - 2013-01-22

    @Birchy: Thank you! Works like a charm!

     
  • adan piñeiro

    adan piñeiro - 2013-01-22

    worked for me too.

    Thanks a lot.

     
  • Daniel Andersson

    Just a "me too" message.

    To do the search/replace in a one-liner in a terminal: run

    sed -i 's#https://www.google.com/accounts#https://accounts.google.com#' /path/to/checkgmail

     
  • Daniel Andersson

    (run the command in a single line, even though it might have gotten broken in the site formatting of the comment below)

     
  • francesco serafini

    thanks birchy!
    happy to understand that google didn't lose the own mind! by further checking umplayer is unmaintained and smtube replaces the same feature (it works!)

    well, as little addition a little howto for beginners:

    - install checkgmail from your distro, so you get also the necessary dependencies.

    - run as superuser in a terminal:
    checkgmail --update
    confirm with Y

    by typing
    checkgmail --help

    you should get as version:
    CheckGmail v1.14pre2-svn

    - get the patch:
    go to:
    http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3406322&group_id=137480&atid=738663
    click on Attached File ( 1 )
    click on download

    - patch:
    copy /usr/bin/checkgmail in the folder containing checkgmail.patch
    run:
    patch checkgmail checkgmail.patch

    - fixing it:
    open checkgmail with some text editor
    with the replace function replace evry occurency of
    https://www.google.com/accounts/

    with:
    https://accounts.google.com/

    it should give 3 occurecies.

    - done! as superuser overwrite /usr/bin/checkgmail with the new version.

     
  • saibal

    saibal - 2013-01-23

    good! fixed!!!

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2013-02-01

    birchy, Adam,

    thanks for your instructions to fix it, guys!

    Checkgmail running and fully working one more time! ;O)

     
  • DFR

    DFR - 2013-02-08

    Patch work.
    When would it be integrated in TRUNK?

     

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