The Google contacts issue

[Steven Stern]

On 05/27/2015 10:35 AM, David Cary Hart wrote:
> On 05/27/2015 11:28 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
>> On 05/27/2015 09:09 AM, David Cary Hart wrote:
>>> Can someone more technically proficient than I explain where the error
>>> is occurring? I need enough information to file a bug report -
>>> somewhere.
>>>
>>> I do know that it is not a Thunderbird issue because the exact same
>>> thing happens in Evolution. Moreover, the problem does not extend to
>>> Google calendars which sync just fine.
>> Google deprected oAuth 1.0 a while ago and told devs to go to oAuth 2.0.
>>   They turned off oAuth 1.0 yesterday.  The two google contact plugins
>> for t-bird use the deprecated, now dead, auth method.
>>
> Same problem with Evolution. So this is a T-Bird and not Fedora issue? I
> am amazed that Mozilla would allow this to happen. Why does the calendar
> authenticate with no problem in both apps but not contacts?
> 

It seems specific to the contacts API:

https://developers.google.com/google-apps/contacts/v3/

-- 
-- Steve