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Gallery Remote 500 Error? Read the code.

Posted in Creating, Pictures on September 5th, 2008

I’ve been following the dreadfully incomplete and near-incomprehensible documentation on how to access Gallery2 remotely. It’s not SOAP, it’s not REST. It’s custom formatted form submission.

And everything seemed to be working. So I kept going through the checklist of available commands, and then it stopped.

500 server error. No actual diagnosable response.

I’ve updated my Gallery2 install to the current release candidate. I’ve custom built ImageMagick locally. Nothing worked.

Then I came across a small, barely commented bit in gallery2/modules/remote/GalleryRemote.inc — “harmless” get-type operations are permitted. However, anything that attempts to make changes is verified — against a white-list of USERAGENT strings.

I have no idea who considered THAT a security feature, but adding a new USERAGENT to match my C# library’s USERAGENT, and everything suddenly works.

“Open” Source, huh?

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DAM Software: Expression Media 2

Posted in Creating, Pictures on July 12th, 2008

I didn’t know I needed any DAM software. I really didn’t. Maybe I should have caught on due to my twenty five THOUSAND mostly unsorted digital pictures. I’ve briefly monkeyed around, and looked around, to see what people are using to sort their pictures. At the moment I’m using Microsoft Expression Media 2, formerly IView Media Pro. Due to Jonathan’s prompting, I’ve just taken a quick look at Adobe Lightroom (the beta of version 2), and have decided to stick with EM2.
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