Unable to connect/post to wordpress from LiveWriter after https change

[jmeridth]

Currently being experienced by @jbogard and @gnschenker

[jbogard]

What's funny is if HTTPS forces me to use the WP interface instead of WLW that was one of my arguments against getting off of WP.

That and the 4.5M page views we had last year and not wanting to break links.

[jmeridth]

Jimmy, Links aren't broken. They all redirect from the tests I've run. Do you have any example link(s) that are broken?

[jbogard]

No I was referring to moving off of WP

[jmeridth]

Ah. I'd love that. :)

[jmeridth]

This seems to be encoding related. Changing my password to have no symbols allows me to get my blog list:

->$ curl -d "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?> <methodCall> <methodName>wp.getUsersBlogs</methodName> <params> <param> <value>[username redacted]</value> </param> <param> <value>[password redacted]</value> </param> </params> </methodCall>" https://www.lostechies.com/jasonmeridth/xmlrpc.php
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<methodResponse>
  <params>
    <param>
      <value>
      <array><data>
  <value><struct>
  <member><name>isAdmin</name><value><boolean>1</boolean></value></member>
  <member><name>url</name><value><string>https://lostechies.com/jasonmeridth/</string></value></member>
  <member><name>blogid</name><value><string>37</string></value></member>
  <member><name>blogName</name><value><string>Jason Meridth&amp;#039;s Blog</string></value></member>
  <member><name>xmlrpc</name><value><string>https://lostechies.com/jasonmeridth/xmlrpc.php</string></value></member>
</struct></value>
</data></array>
      </value>
    </param>
  </params>
</methodResponse>

Still working on it. Seems wp.getPosts still fails though.

[jmeridth]

nm, looks like I need to pass my blog id to get the posts. that worked. still getting errors through Blogilo though. Almost there. Hopefully the fix isn't removing symbols from passwords :frowning:

[erichexter]

i traced the code to here. not sure how you are debugging this.. https://github.com/lostechies/wordpress/blob/master/wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php#L3225

[erichexter]

also, it looks like livewritter always calls the blogger.getusersblogs and never calls the wp.getusersblogs.

[jmeridth]

Was able to connect and post with MarsEdit and no errors. I put in Name: Jason Meridth and URL: https://lostechies.com/jasonmeridth and MarsEdit auto detected the following information:

The xmlrpc.php link and blog ID are the bits it auto detected. Can someone please try figuring out their blog id and use that xmlrpc.php url and see if LiveWriter doesn't bork?

[jmeridth]

Still happening. Found a Windows box.

Going to try this out: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14046

[erichexter]

this is so strange. i get a different certificate when i use my blog subfolder. Which led me down the path that the certificate does not match the hostname, i wonder if thats screwing something up.

[jmeridth]

Using the new open source version of Windows Live Writer called OpenLiveWriter @andrewsiemer was able to connect and post to LT on 1/12/16. Please use OpenLiveWriter if you want to use WLW.