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From: ubikdroid <markst3v...@googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:50:56 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Fri, Mar 19 2010 2:50 am
Subject: Re: Stale Android auth token means no HTTP 401
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Hi Mihai,
Thanks for clarifying. My app hits:

https://www.google.com/reader/api/0/unread-count?output=json

On Mar 19, 2:10 am, Mihai Parparita <mih...@google.com> wrote:

> Which URL were you requesting that you got redirected to the login page?
> Generally, /api/0/ URLs should result in a 401, while other URLs (which are
> user-visible) will result in a 302 to the login page.

> Mihai

> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:03 PM, ubikdroid <markst3v...@googlemail.com>wrote:

> > Hi friends,
> > I just noticed that the Google Reader widget on my Nexus One's home
> > screen was not updating. I know that the auth token was due to time
> > out today, it being 2 weeks since the widget was added. I had put in
> > place code to catch HTTP 401s coming from the API but 401 was not the
> > issue. Instead it looks like the API redirected me to a web page
> > asking for my Google Reader username and password. Unfortunately, the
> > fix is not ideal as I am basically looking for some text in that page
> > and then retrieving a new auth token.

> > Also for any Android devs I had to invalidate the auth token using
> > GoogleLoginServiceBlockingHelper.invalidateAuthToken() before
> > retrieving a new auth token otherwise I was just getting the same
> > stale one.

> > Mark

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