On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:44 AM, hanlho<hlho...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm afraid no solution but the reason for the error is that the
> appengine does not allow opening a socket to or access to another host
> (http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/runtime.html#The_Sandbox)
>

Access to other hosts is allowed via a URLConnection, which is sufficient
for doing OAuth. So you can make it work. FWIW, I ended up hacking
Signpost[1], but I don't recommend that solution[2]. I'd be interested to
hear about any Java libraries that work out of the box.

-cks

[1] http://code.google.com/p/oauth-signpost/
[2] http://artofsystems.blogspot.com/2009/07/popstat-on-google-app-engine.html

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Christopher St. John
http://praxisbridge.com
http://artofsystems.blogspot.com

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