AuthSub token has wrong scope

Devang Parekh

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Apr 28, 2009, 5:23:49 AM4/28/09

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I am getting following message when trying to access googleContacts
using authSub token. Everything was running smoothly before 5-6 hours.
This message is coming from last 2-3 hours continuously. AuthSub token
which i have saved before this issue, is still working correctly. but
googleAccount with new authSub token shows below response.

<HEAD>
<TITLE>Token invalid - AuthSub token has wrong scope</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000">
<H1>Token invalid - AuthSub token has wrong scope</H1>
<H2>Error 401</H2>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Anyone have idea about this??

Benjamin Golub

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Apr 28, 2009, 6:55:08 AM4/28/09

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I am getting this error too as of this morning. Everything was working
fine last night.

Y

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Apr 28, 2009, 8:08:54 AM4/28/09

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I have this problem too. Everything was fine yesterday. Now I am
getting hundreds of errors. IS there any way to escalate this issue to
google?

bartjo!

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Apr 28, 2009, 11:09:36 AM4/28/09

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We are experiencing the same behavior for suers that want to set up a
connection for Soocial.com

we'd love for this to be fixed soon.

Nicholas

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Apr 28, 2009, 11:14:02 AM4/28/09

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Just registering my $0.02. Experiencing the same thing here. My
service has been running flawlessly for months and now my users are
getting [401]: Token invalid - AuthSub token has wrong scope. This is
happening for Google Calendar as well. Nothing has changed on my end
in months.

I'm digging through requests and responses but finding nothing. Any
insights greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Nicholas

Julian (Google)

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Apr 28, 2009, 11:19:17 AM4/28/09

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Hi,

I apologize for any inconvenience. I was also able to reproduce the
error and we are investigating the issue.

I will post back as soon as I have any news.

Thanks,
Julian.

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Jordan Brough

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Apr 28, 2009, 11:19:45 AM4/28/09

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We are seeing this also on our production, staging and development
enviroments (different domains for each).

We are actually seeing this for both Contact and Photo retrieval, and
the code for those two areas actually use 2 significantly different
code bases so I'm pretty sure that either 1) Google has changed
something or 2) Google APIs are having some problems right now. Which
is it?

Has anyone seen a thread for this on a larger scale? (e.g., not just
contacts?)

Devang Parekh

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Apr 28, 2009, 11:24:20 AM4/28/09

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If emergency then Try with OAuth token for temporary(token which is available by providing userName & p/w).
because my one googleCalendar is running correctly by this token. This problem may
happen for new users only. In my service, old users have no such complaints.

thebrandon

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Apr 28, 2009, 1:58:48 PM4/28/09

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phew...im glad my code didnt 'just break' I hope someone will post
when it gets fixed :)

Y

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Apr 28, 2009, 3:30:25 PM4/28/09

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Devang,

Do you have a code sample for this approach? Preferably python?.

Thanks

On Apr 28, 11:24 am, Devang Parekh <devangsofte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If emergency then Try with OAuth token for temporary(token which is
> available by providing userName & p/w).
> because my one googleCalendar is running correctly by this token. This
> problem may
> happen for new users only. In my service, old users have no such complaints.
>

Benjamin Golub

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Apr 28, 2009, 5:21:16 PM4/28/09

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It's been fixed: http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=1179

Jordan Brough

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Apr 28, 2009, 7:09:59 PM4/28/09

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Thanks, working for us again now.

Julian (Google)

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Apr 29, 2009, 4:13:17 AM4/29/09

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Hi,

Thank your for your patience, the issue was fixed few hours ago,
please let me know if there is any other problem.

--Julian

bryan

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Apr 29, 2009, 10:51:06 AM4/29/09

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I am still having trouble with this. AuthSub hasn't been working for
me since Monday, and none of the code on my end has changed. I'm
requesting a one time use token and exchanging it for a session token
using the Java api. After I do that, I get an AuthenticationException
saying "Invalid session token".

Any ideas?

– Bryan

bryan

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Apr 29, 2009, 10:52:34 AM4/29/09

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By the way, I'm accessing the Spreadsheets API (or trying to) after
authenticating.

– Bryan

Julian (Google)

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May 1, 2009, 5:54:44 AM5/1/09

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Hi Bryan,

If you have tokens that are not working properly, because of the
temporary issue, you may need to obtain newer ones. Also, if there is
a token that cannot be revoke programmaticaly, those can revoke
manually using the following page:
https://www.google.com/accounts/IssuedAuthSubTokens

You may also find more specific information on the Spreadsheets API
group:
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Docs-Data-APIs

Cheers,
Julian

bryan

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May 1, 2009, 8:35:07 AM5/1/09

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Hi Julian,

Thanks for the quick response. I've revoked the token manually, but
the next time I request a token, something strange happens: Each time
I click "Grant Access" on the Google page, it redirects to my site,
throws an AuthenticationException, then redirects back to the Google
auth page. This happens indefinitely.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Bryan

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javadev123

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Jun 12, 2011, 2:24:47 PM6/12/11

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I have a 3rd party application and I have been trying to integrate it with Google using 2 legged oauth so that my application can retrieve the contact and calendar records from google users. Unfortunately, I have been stuck with the error "401 Token invalid - Invalid AuthSub token". At this point, I am ready to pay someone with the expertise to help me resolve this problem. Please email me at tagxta...@gmail.com if you can offer assistance.

Alain Vongsouvanh

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Jun 13, 2011, 12:29:28 PM6/13/11

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Please stop spamming our forums and use the original topic for this discussion!

Best,

Alain

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:24 AM, javadev123 <tagxta...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a 3rd party application and I have been trying to integrate it with Google using 2 legged oauth so that my application can retrieve the contact and calendar records from google users. Unfortunately, I have been stuck with the error "401 Token invalid - Invalid AuthSub token". At this point, I am ready to pay someone with the expertise to help me resolve this problem. Please email me at tagxta...@gmail.com if you can offer assistance.

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