Checkout to GoogleDocs failing

[rockshore]

Version: 3.4.d

I wonder if someone has seen the following behaviour and can possibly lend some advice.

Checkout to GoogleDocs appears to have stopped working just recently, with the following message appearing in Share:

You cannot checkout 'google.xls' to Google Docs‍

I've enabled debug mode and I get the following:

18:32:43,005 User:admin DEBUG [repo.googledocs.GoogleDocsServiceImpl] Creating google document (google (Working Copy).xls,application/vnd.ms-excel)
18:32:43,005 User:admin DEBUG [repo.googledocs.GoogleDocsServiceImpl] Creating google document with name google (Working Copy).xls
18:32:43,005 User:admin DEBUG [repo.googledocs.GoogleDocsServiceImpl] Creating media content object for mimetype application/vnd.ms-excel
18:32:43,005 User:admin DEBUG [repo.googledocs.GoogleDocsServiceImpl] Creating SpreadsheetEntry for mimetype application/vnd.ms-excel
18:32:43,202 User:admin DEBUG [repo.googledocs.GoogleDocsServiceImpl] Unable to create google document with name google (Working Copy).xls, because 403.4 SSL required‍‍‍‍‍

Has anyone else experienced or heard of this? Is it possibly an issue with Google rather than Alfresco?

Any advice leading to a solution would be great.

[mikeh]

Looks like Google has changed their service so that SSL is required. Try updating the URLs by adding these to the alfresco-global.properties file:

googledocs.url=https://docs.google.com/feeds/default/private/full
googledocs.downloadurl=https://docs.google.com/feeds/download
googledocs.spreadsheet.downloadurl=https://spreadsheet.google.com/feeds/download‍‍‍

Thanks,
Mike

[rockshore]

Thanks Mike, that worked a treat.

I came to the same conclusion after some fervent Googling, and found the following blog post by a Google Developer:

http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2011/09/requiring-ssl-for-documents-list.html

Is it to be assumed that this will be patched in Alfresco 4?

[fliot]

Hi,

Regarding Google Docs integration,
Alfresco community 4.0.a is already outdated since Google now imposes SSL.

You can create simple Google Docs correcting .amp extensions with this tool :
http://code.google.com/p/acmt/wiki/HowTo

Regards,

Francois

[sunnysharma]

Thank you Mike. It worked for me. 

[zjao]

It worked for me too, Thanks Mike