Ah, this is just really broken it seems. Sorry about that. I'm surprised that you are the first person to report it (I suppose that says something about our Flash adoption.)
Here's the issue to watch as we work on the resolution: http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=1089 Cheers, -Jeff On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Alastair Halliday < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Jeff. > That doesn't seem to be the problem. I was aware of it, but in order to do > due diligence I thought I would try both crossdomain urls anyway. > > The problem seems to be the following: using photos.googleapis.com no > parameter works from this entire table in the reference guide: > http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/reference.html#Parameters > > The following works: > > http://photos.googleapis.com/data/feed/api/user/alastair.halliday/album/RecentWork > > The following does NOT work: > > http://photos.googleapis.com/data/feed/api/user/alastair.halliday/album/RecentWork?tag=nature > > actually, any parameter after the "?" does not work, regardless of if that > data exists in the album. Is this a bug, have you discontinues the use of > any of those parameters from the reference table you provide at > http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/reference.html#Parameters as well as > doubling it up with album/albumID in the example below the table? Any help > would be greatly appreciated. I would like to be able to select photos from > an album using tags like I could previously. Thanks. > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Jeff Fisher <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Surely then you realize that >> >> http://picasaweb.google.com/data/crossdomain.xml >> >> does not exist. We do not put permissive crossdomain.xml files on >> google.com domain names, which is why photos.googleapis.com exists. You >> need to use the API through this alternate hostname: >> >> >> http://photos.googleapis.com/data/feed/api/user/MY_USER_NAME/album/RecentWork?tag=nature >> >> Cheers, >> -Jeff >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Calvinist <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> I'm building a flash site that uses the picasa web album api. I AM >>> using the System.security.loadPolicyFile("http://photos.googleapis.com/ >>> data/crossdomain.xml<http://photos.googleapis.com/%0Adata/crossdomain.xml>"); >>> and have also tried using >>> System.security.loadPolicyFile("http://picasaweb.google.com/data/ >>> crossdomain.xml <http://picasaweb.google.com/data/%0Acrossdomain.xml>"); >>> to try and resolve this issue. >>> >>> I put down my project for three weeks, three weeks later, I get error >>> messages whenever tI try to hit the api with the following URL: >>> >>> http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/MY_USER_NAME/album/RecentWork?tag=nature >>> >>> This album is public. >>> >>> I get errors accessing that URL in the following scenarios: >>> When published directly from flash, not within a browser window (for >>> testing) >>> When all files are online in either safari OR FF >>> When I try to open the page locally via FF (cookies on, but having >>> never logged into picasa) >>> When I paste the URL directly into FF >>> >>> I DON'T get errors in the following circumstance: >>> When I view the page from my local computer in safari after being >>> logged into picasa. >>> >>> Since this album is public I am not understanding this issue. I am >>> also not understanding this issue because it worked perfectly three- >>> four weeks ago, and after simply trying to open the file up again it >>> doesn't work any more. I am totally confused. Any help would be >>> GREATLY appreciated. This is a last resort for me. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Picasa-Data-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
