Bug 753970 - API for accessing bugzilla from 3rd party apps no longer works after the switch from iChain
Summary: API for accessing bugzilla from 3rd party apps no longer works after the swit...
Status: NEW
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Product: openSUSE.org
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Bugzilla (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Reported: 2012-03-26 06:44 UTC by Andrew Wafaa
Modified: 2012-05-25 12:42 UTC (History)
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Description Andrew Wafaa 2012-03-26 06:44:41 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.83 Safari/535.11

After the switch from iChain, third party apps can no longer access BNC via the API from outside the Novell/SUSE network. I am specifically concerned with Entomologist (http://entomologist-project.org) as that is my preferred bugtracking software.

The application throws the following error when trying to access BNC:
Error -32300: Error downloading https://apibugzilla.novell.com/xmlrpc.cgi - server replied: Forbidden

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Matt Barringer 2012-03-27 08:28:17 UTC 
apibugzilla is apparently only for employees (it works for me, for example).  It would be great if that could be opened up to non-employees.
Comment 2 Matt Barringer 2012-05-25 12:42:15 UTC 
Is there any status update about this?  It doesn't make any sense to allow only employees to have API access, when we promote openSUSE as a community distribution.  And working around Access Manager is far more difficult than it was to work around iChain.