Scoop Beta 0.33
For those of you who couldn’t get Scoop to sync with your Google Reader accounts there’s a new Scoop Update - Beta 0.33 - which will (hopefully!) fix this.
Although I wasn’t able to reproduce this bug on my test machines one of the Scoop users who could (cheers Danny) assisted me to get the the core of the problem.
The cause of the problem was that to syncronize feeds/tags/reading lists with Google Reader API Scoop needs to be able to send authorization headers to google.com in each http data request. I believe that Flash Player in AIR was stripping out these custom headers which was causing the Google Reader sync to fail.
I’ve now implemented an alternative solution for calling Google.com using Abdul Qabiz’s custom HTTP Authentication Class (Thanks Abdul!). which according to my helpful tester Dan has fixed the Google Reader Sync issue for him. Hopefully for others too.
BTW - I know that Scoop still needs some optimization work but that and adding folders are top of my list now!
5 Comments to Scoop Beta 0.33
Hi, I downloaded scoop but it doesn’t work. Nothing gets displayed on the right panel.
same with me. the message at the bottom says synchronized at so and so time but nothing on the ride pane. i am behind a proxy though.
but ‘readair’ client was able to pull up all my folders from my reader but some how only a couple of folder show the feeds..so i am now trying RSSBandit. wish me luck!! 
Debbie CFebruary 26, 2009
I’m not getting how you mark when an item is read?
If someone can help me out with this..thanks guys
Nice app, it works perfectly fine for me. I am going to use it often.
Thanks for using HTTP Auth, I wrote long time back. I have not updated it for long time, hence curious did you make any modification? If yes, would you like to share it with me, so I can update the code on my blog?
Thanks
-abdul
Nick KuhMarch 25, 2009
Hi Abdul
Glad you like the app. I haven’t worked on it for a while as I came up against some problems with the Google Reader Authentication that even your HTTP Auth class couldn’t get around. The google reader API requires https for logging in which I don’t think your class supports (parseURL method) and certain google API calls need to be made by POST rather than GET requests so this was also preventing me getting around certain versions of Adobe’s Flash Player ripping out authentication parameters. I found the app works for most users but not others and investigation pointed to the authentication issues I came up against listed above. Anyway, if you do add https and POST support in your class let me know and I’ll see if they resolve these issues as I’ve got a new version of Scoop with directory support which I haven’t released in light of the above…
Nick
December 8, 2008