Unexpected redirect about rtv

[Brobin]

What is your default subreddit set as in rtv.cfg?

[Thimoteus]

I have subreddit=linux in my rtv.cfg.

[Brobin]

It looks like this is an issue on login. Is your user/pass correct?

[Thimoteus]

Yes, I use pass to manage passwords, so I just pasted it in.

[michael-lazar]

Hi,
What version of praw are you running? Are you using any custom configuration settings for praw? (http://praw.readthedocs.org/en/latest/pages/configuration_files.html#configuration-variables)

[Thimoteus]

Here's the output of pip show praw:

---
Metadata-Version: 2.0
Name: praw
Version: 2.1.21
Summary: PRAW, an acronym for `Python Reddit API Wrapper`, is a python package that allows for simple access to reddit's API.
Home-page: http://praw.readthedocs.org/
Author: Bryce Boe
Author-email: [email protected]
License: GPLv3
Location: /usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages
Requires: requests, update-checker, six

And here's my praw.ini. AFAIK it's the same as this one.

[larryhynes]

I've just ran into the same issue. After confirming that https://www.reddit.com/user/lhynes/about/.json does actually exist, I deleted lines 163 and 164 in ../python2.7/site-packages/praw/internal.py, i.e. delete

    elif not RE_RANDOM.search(response.url):
        raise RedirectException(response.url, new_url)

and now rtv launches fine, if that's of any use to anyone trying to track this down.

[michael-lazar]

@larryhynes Thanks for the heads up! This is definitely sounding like a PRAW issue. It looks like PRAW is trying to hit http: instead of https to get user information and reddit is redirecting to the secure url. I encourage you to post an issue on praw-dev if you want to follow up on this.

[larryhynes]

A recent commit message on the praw github is titled 'enforce https everywhere', so if I had to guess they've introduced a redirect that isn't being handled well. I might post an issue there.

[michael-lazar]

Closing because this is really a PRAW bug and a fix is upcoming.