I've recently installed Habari-0.8 and am currently trying to
configure the Defensio-0.4 plugin.
I have a Defensio API key and when I attempt to configure the plugin I
get the following error:
Sorry, the Defensio API key ... is invalid. Please check to make sure
the key is entered correctly and is registered for this site
(http://...). Defensio said: "Unable to connect to api.defensio.com"
The API key is present at defensio.com but the Unable to connect to
api.defensio.com suggests that some change in the API may have broken
the plugin.
It's quite possible. I don't use Defensio - tried once but didn't think
much of it. I'll check it out later today or tomorrow if I get a chance or
if someone else doesn't before then.
On Apr 21, 2012 1:08 PM, "Neil Darlow" <n...@darlow.co.uk> wrote:
> I've recently installed Habari-0.8 and am currently trying to
> configure the Defensio-0.4 plugin.
> I have a Defensio API key and when I attempt to configure the plugin I
> get the following error:
> Sorry, the Defensio API key ... is invalid. Please check to make sure
> the key is entered correctly and is registered for this site
> (http://...). Defensio said: "Unable to connect to api.defensio.com"
> The API key is present at defensio.com but the Unable to connect to
> api.defensio.com suggests that some change in the API may have broken
> the plugin.
> Regards,
> Neil Darlow
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I've done some quick testing and this seems to be working for me.
It's worth pointing out that the plugin still uses the 1.2 API.
I suspect the issue may be a communication issue between your Habari
instance and the outside world, rather than a problem with the plugin being
incompatible with the Defensio API.
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Colin <lild...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's quite possible. I don't use Defensio - tried once but didn't think
> much of it. I'll check it out later today or tomorrow if I get a chance or
> if someone else doesn't before then.
> > I've recently installed Habari-0.8 and am currently trying to
> > configure the Defensio-0.4 plugin.
> > I have a Defensio API key and when I attempt to configure the plugin I
> > get the following error:
> > Sorry, the Defensio API key ... is invalid. Please check to make sure
> > the key is entered correctly and is registered for this site
> > (http://...). Defensio said: "Unable to connect to api.defensio.com"
> > The API key is present at defensio.com but the Unable to connect to
> > api.defensio.com suggests that some change in the API may have broken
> > the plugin.
> > Regards,
> > Neil Darlow
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> I've done some quick testing and this seems to be working for me.
> It's worth pointing out that the plugin still uses the 1.2 API.
Yes. although the newer 2.0 API is being promoted it appears the 1.2 API is still supported.
> I suspect the issue may be a communication issue between your Habari
> instance and the outside world, rather than a problem with the plugin being
> incompatible with the Defensio API.
Maybe I was unlucky at the time I installed the defensio plugin. I'll give it another shot and see what happens.
Thanks for taking the time to investigate the issue.
Defensio had server issues by being overloaded. the 1.0 series API is synchronous and so if the defensio server fails to respond it dies. The lastest plugin has a "retry mechanism" and it will keep retrying every few seconds until defensio servers respond.
Defensio upgraded their API to 2.0 and made it "Asynchronous", where you submit your comment for testing, then the defensio server responds to a set entry point on your server at a later time with the result. This solved their servers not responding from being overloaded.
I never got to updating the plugin to use 2.0, but someone should do that :)
Just make sure you use the latest plugin from github to be sure it's using the retry thingy and it should work.
> On Thursday 26 Apr 2012 12:52:25 Colin wrote:
>> I've done some quick testing and this seems to be working for me.
>> It's worth pointing out that the plugin still uses the 1.2 API.
> Yes. although the newer 2.0 API is being promoted it appears the 1.2 API is
> still supported.
>> I suspect the issue may be a communication issue between your Habari
>> instance and the outside world, rather than a problem with the plugin being
>> incompatible with the Defensio API.
> Maybe I was unlucky at the time I installed the defensio plugin. I'll give it
> another shot and see what happens.
> Thanks for taking the time to investigate the issue.
