Question

I’m trying to create a bookmarklet for posting del.icio.us bookmarks to a separate account.

I tested it from the command line like:

wget -O - --no-check-certificate \ 'https://seconduser:[e-mail]/v1/posts/add?url=http://seet.dk&description=test' 

This works great.

I then wanted to create a bookmarklet in my firefox. I googled and found bits and pieces and ended up with:

javascript:void(     open('https://seconduser:[e-mail]/v1/posts/add?url='           +encodeURIComponent(location.href)           +'&description='+encodeURIComponent(document.title),           'delicious','toolbar=no,width=500,height=250'         )     ); 

But all that happens is that I get this from del.icio.us:

<?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes'?> <result code='access denied' /> <!-- fe04.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Thu Aug  7 02:02:54 PDT 2008 -->   

If I then go to the address bar and press enter, it changes to:

<?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes'?> <result code='done' /> <!-- fe02.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Thu Aug  7 02:07:45 PDT 2008 --> 

Any ideas how to get it to work directly from the bookmarks?

Answer 1

Can you sniff the traffic to find what’s actually being sent? Is it sending any auth data at all and it’s incorrect or being presented in a form the server doesn’t like, or is it never being sent by firefox at all?