{"id":877,"date":"2008-12-06T09:37:59","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T22:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=877"},"modified":"2008-12-06T12:05:50","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T01:05:50","slug":"online-photo-db-stage-5-first-hurdle-with-smugmug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2008\/12\/06\/online-photo-db-stage-5-first-hurdle-with-smugmug\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Photo DB: Stage 5 &#8211; First Hurdle with SmugMug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> This turned out to be an unexplained problem at my end. See more at bottom.<\/p>\n<div class=\"aside\">This post is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/tag\/online-photo-database\/\">Online Photo Database project documentation<\/a>. Learn more about the project&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2008\/12\/03\/online-photo-database-project-status\/\">current status<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>I want to look at the SmugMug API documentation. <\/p>\n<p>I am confident that it is fine, but I just need to be sure there are no FaceBook-like restrictions on what can be exported, that there is a Python wrapper, and there are no other surprises.<\/p>\n<p>I am having a problem with their site. It isn&#8217;t responding!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smugmug.com\">http:\/\/smugmug.com<\/a>  and <a href=\"http:\/\/smugmug.com\/hack\">http:\/\/smugmug.com\/hack<\/a> both timeout for me, consistently, for the last 18 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Randomly-selected SmugMug-hosted albums (available on subdomains) are working fine.<\/p>\n<p>The problem isn&#8217;t my browser, because I tried on IE7, Firefox and Chrome, with the same results.<\/p>\n<p>The problem isn&#8217;t that the site is down, because when I use <a href=\"http:\/\/proxify.com\/\"> Proxify<\/a> to hide who I am, it connects fine!<\/p>\n<p>The problem isn&#8217;t my configuration because, in those immortal words of confused users everywhere, I didn&#8217;t change anything.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think the problem is that I am looking at a different web-server server to other people, through DNS magic. My nslookup and an online nslookup provide the same IP address.<\/p>\n<p>I am coming to the rather paranoid conclusion that my IP address is being deliberately blocked! I haven&#8217;t been doing anything untoward, so if I am, it is for crimes I didn&#8217;t commit. It was the one-armed man!<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps there is a more plausible explanation&#8230; anyone?<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not it is true, the idea that it could be true is making me nervous about third-party hosts galleries!<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> I updated my router firmware and rebooted it. Problem went away. Firmware bug? Cache corruption? Dunno. Sorry SmugMug!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrongly came to a tentative paranoid conclusion about SmugMug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[319,284,318,95],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","tag-networks","tag-online-photo-database","tag-smugmug","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}