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API for forum access validation stopped working yesterday

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Codo Yagari
Cohortes Vigilum
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
#1 - 2014-03-15 13:14:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Codo Yagari
Hallo!

Yesterday a strange problem started occuring with my alliances SMF forum and the EVE API security verification. The API seems to have stopped working properly, no longer verifying correctly the character a player has on his accounts and what alliance and corp he is a member of. I know this is not a local issue with our forum, because a sister alliance using the exact same system for verification also stopped working, and it is still not working.

I was just wondering if there is a known issue with the CCP API server at the moment?

Any help much appreciated.

regards

Codo Yagari
Yulai Federation


Edit: Oh yeah, our killboard also does not fetch kills properly... Using EDK killboard, the most common I believe. This problem also started yesterday.

http://forum.yulaifederation.net/yulai-guard/
Senily
Celestial Tomb
#2 - 2014-03-15 20:17:32 UTC

I have multiple API tools that have stopped working since today or yesterday
CCP Explorer
C C P
C C P Alliance
#3 - 2014-03-16 11:00:58 UTC
Are you still using api.eve-online.com instead of api.eveonline.com? Are you using HTTPS (because you shouldn't be using HTTP)?

Erlendur S. Thorsteinsson | Senior Development Director | EVE Online // CCP Games | @CCP_Explorer
Codo Yagari
Cohortes Vigilum
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
#4 - 2014-03-16 11:46:49 UTC
Hello, thanks for the reply, CCP!

This is apparently a patch note from EVEmon that addresses the issue?
* Refactored Contacts code to remove excess calls to CharacterInfo and CorporationSheet which are now redundant.

My coding skills are insufficient to tell if this is of any use. Some bloke from my alliance managed to get hold of an altered API file for our forum that adjusted the way it checks the API, and it's working now, so some sort of alternation must have been done recently regarding how the EVE API works. Only I have not been able to find any info on what this may be : ) Is there a thread, perhaps here on the forums that announce these things? I cant find it.

cheers

// Codo

http://forum.yulaifederation.net/yulai-guard/
CCP Explorer
C C P
C C P Alliance
#5 - 2014-03-16 12:32:31 UTC  |  Edited by: CCP Explorer
Codo Yagari wrote:
Hello, thanks for the reply, CCP!

This is apparently a patch note from EVEmon that addresses the issue?
* Refactored Contacts code to remove excess calls to CharacterInfo and CorporationSheet which are now redundant.

My coding skills are insufficient to tell if this is of any use. Some bloke from my alliance managed to get hold of an altered API file for our forum that adjusted the way it checks the API, and it's working now, so some sort of alternation must have been done recently regarding how the EVE API works. Only I have not been able to find any info on what this may be : ) Is there a thread, perhaps here on the forums that announce these things? I cant find it.

cheers

// Codo
No, this is a different thing. We were simply working with the EVEMon devs to reduce unnecessary calls.

What we did Friday was to stop serving up the API on api.eve-online.com (with a -) but api.eveonline.com (without a -) has been the official domain for many years now. The official URL is https://api.eveonline.com (note, HTTPS; we also support HTTP but it redirects directly to the same HTTPS URL).

There was a deployment on Friday and I know there was fallout that was fixed internally by CCP FoxFour and is pending deployment on Monday. Whether that particular fallout is relevant to your issue I don't know.

Erlendur S. Thorsteinsson | Senior Development Director | EVE Online // CCP Games | @CCP_Explorer
CCP FoxFour
C C P
C C P Alliance
#6 - 2014-03-16 14:18:44 UTC
Senily wrote:

I have multiple API tools that have stopped working since today or yesterday


What tools specifically are no longer working?

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Peter Powers
Terrorists of Dimensions
HORSE-KILLERS
#7 - 2014-03-16 14:36:55 UTC
Codo Yagari wrote:
Hello, thanks for the reply, CCP!

This is apparently a patch note from EVEmon that addresses the issue?
* Refactored Contacts code to remove excess calls to CharacterInfo and CorporationSheet which are now redundant.

My coding skills are insufficient to tell if this is of any use. Some bloke from my alliance managed to get hold of an altered API file for our forum that adjusted the way it checks the API, and it's working now, so some sort of alternation must have been done recently regarding how the EVE API works. Only I have not been able to find any info on what this may be : ) Is there a thread, perhaps here on the forums that announce these things? I cant find it.

cheers

// Codo

i'm almost sure that you had issues with using the wrong url, which was announced in a devblog like 2 years ago..

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Darkle
Black Lance
#8 - 2014-03-19 16:31:37 UTC
Ours stopped working last weekend too. I've checked the URL and Temar's Eve API is using the correct (official) URL, so that's not the problem.

Next idea?
Codo Yagari
Cohortes Vigilum
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
#9 - 2014-03-19 18:15:07 UTC
Send me an EVE mail with your email and I'll attach the modified files for ya to get it to work.

http://forum.yulaifederation.net/yulai-guard/