Amazon declines requests as expired
stephanmaximili... - October 6, 2009 - 16:01
| Project: | Amazon Module |
| Version: | 6.x-1.0-beta7 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed |
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Description
I am using the amazon module as a cck-field for books. On our server the requests for ASINs get declined by the amazon-server, because they are expired, too old. If I change the call to gmdate around line 204 to date(...) everything works. Here's the response:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <ItemLookupErrorResponse xmlns="http://ecs.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-03-31/"><Error><Code>RequestExpired</Code><Message>Request has expired. Timestamp date is 2009-10-06T15:38:01Z.</Message></Error><RequestID>d63265e6-01fd-4aba-b5da-b8ed1291606a</RequestID></ItemLookupErrorResponse>Note my local time for the request was 17:38 in Berlin, date -u shows 15:38, I am using Amazon DE.
As the module functions on other computers correctly (with the same time settings), what's wrong with our server?
Any help is appreciated.
cheers,
Stephan
#1
Thanks for the report.
Are you saying that this works *for you* on other servers?
Does this only happen on specific ASINs? Or is it every request, as far as you know?
#2
Hi,
I tested the amazon-module on my local computer (mac 10.5.x) and there it works for every request. A co-developer reports that the module works fine on his development-computer, too. Only on our server (suse something) it fails for every request unless I replace gmdate with date.
Perhaps Amazon does some throttling by IP-ranges?
cheers,
Stephan
#3
I don't think you'd get the 'expired' message if it was throttling.
I imagine that your system is not set to run on GMT, which is the usual setup for a Unix computer. My bet is that you don't have the timezone set, and that you have the Unix system running on local time.
I can't tell you exactly what to do on your version, but my bet is that's what's up. The timezone is typically in /etc/timezone, and there's typically a GUI way to set all this up.
#4
#5
Hi rfay,
we finally switched servers and now it works as advertised -- may be a corrupted /misconfigured server installation. Thanks für your patience + help!
cheers,
sth
#6
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.