No worries, I figured it out myself, so Im posting here to anyone in the future for reference:
We need to open BOTH ports 80 and 443 to: www.google.com picasaweb.google.com Hope that helps someone. It took me a while to figure this out. On May 3, 1:45 pm, Ajith <cyberaj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > This is Ajith from India. We are developing an application where we > import Picasa images for displaying in our system. This works fine in > our dev server as well as a couple of partner production servers where > we have installed this. Now we need to install this on a new partners > server in Germany. The problem is that their server has very strict > firewall rules where all outgoing traffic is blocked, so we need to > tell them what ports/urls to open to make Picasa Import work. > > So we told them the following: > - opened picasaweb.google.com (port 80) for outgoing communication > > It did not work so then we did this: > - opened port 443 for outgoing communication > > That did not work too. I believe we need to openwww.google.comon 443 > for the authentication. > > However my problem is that I am unsure if openingwww.google.comon > 443 is all that is required and if more urls/ports need to be opened. > The thing is that I have already requested them a couple of times to > open urls/ports to make this work. I don't want to make another > request that does not solve the problem because it would look like > trial and error...(which it is btw, but you know how these partner > company/technical business is..) > > I am not very familiar with the Picasa/GData API so I thought I would > post here and get your opinion on if any other URLs than the following > are required: > > - Open communication on 80 and 443 on both picasaweb.google.com > andwww.google.com > > On a side note, I briefly looked at the Picasa/GData code and saw a > bunch of 'namespace urls' If i change/comment any of them, then my > application does not work on my dev box. Does these mean that these > urls are also necessary and communication should be opened to them as > well? > > As you folks can see, I am a bit lost here...any help is very much > appreciated! > > Ajith > > -- > 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 google-picasa-data-...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-picasa-data-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api?hl=en. -- 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 google-picasa-data-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-picasa-data-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api?hl=en.
