{"id":121,"date":"2010-08-24T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=121"},"modified":"2010-08-24T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T15:15:00","slug":"mobileme-bugs-image-upload-with-linux-based-browsers-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"MobileMe bugs: Image upload with Linux based browsers impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, the MobileMe gallery upload seems to only like Mac browsers. I have only my SuSE box here, so I tried to upload using Chrom 5.0 and Firefox 3.5. No luck. Both browsers throw errors. Just like this:<\/p>\n

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So far, I cannot find any documentation on this behaviour. I would have assumed that either FFox or Chrome would work. MobileMe on OS X says it supports FFox and Safari. But since Safari is not available on Linux, I thought I might try FFox and Chrome. Now waiting for a MobileMe chat support guy. I doubt they are educated enough to actually help me…

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Update:<\/b> The chat guy was friendly, and had one hint: update to FFox 3.6. I was still on 3.5. And sure enough: now the upload works. Only one file at a time, though. But I found out even more on my own. It seems all the images are accessible from your iDisk as well. They are stored in Web\/Sites\/_gallery\/id. Where id is the number of your gallery. However, you cannot just upload pictures there. Every image needs to be put in a separate directory. Every directory must then have the following files:

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exif.json<\/span>
large.jpg<\/span>
medium.jpg<\/span>
square.jpg<\/span>
web.jpg<\/span><\/p>\n


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The exif.json is obviously a JSON style EXIF data block, e.g. like this:<\/span><\/div>\n
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{“data”:{“infoSensing”:”One-chip color area sensor”,”infoExposure”:”Normal program”,”infoExposureIndex”:”–“,”infoFNumber”:”2.8″,”infoDistance”:”–“,”infoGPSLongitude”:”8\u00b0 15&#39 35.40″ E”,”infoWidth”:”2,048 pixels”,”infoName”:”IMG_0133.jpg”,”infoDigitizedDate”:”Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:18:20 PDT”,”infoFocalLength”:”3.85 mm”,”infoHeight”:”1,536 pixels”,”infoExposureTime”:”0.003846154″,”infoGPSLatitude”:”50\u00b0 0&#39 5.40″ N”,”infoAperture”:”f\/3.0″,”infoMetering”:”Average”,”infoShutter”:”1\/260″,”infoSize”:”1022.27 KB”,”infoBrightness”:”–“,”infoCameraModel”:”iPhone 3GS”,”infoMaxAperture”:”–“,”infoCameraMake”:”Apple”,”infoExposureBias”:”–“,”infoFlash”:”32″,”infoOriginalDate”:”Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:18:20 PDT”,”infoGPSAltitude”:”115.00 m”,”infoISOSpeed”:”64″,”infoLightSource”:”–“,”infoSoftware”:”4.0.2″},”status”:1}<\/span><\/div>\n
This should be easily created by a short shell script, using “exiftool -s image.jpg” and some awk magic. The image files in the folder are:<\/p>\n

large.jpg: 2048×1536 (original resolution? at least for iPhone 3GS)
medium.jpg: 427×320 (approx. iPhone screen resolution)
square.jpg: 160×160 (thumbnail)
web.jpg: 1024×768<\/p>\n

For portrait, I assume that the width and height are swapped. Have not checked this yet. Later, I will try to whip up a bash or Python script which produces these files automatically from a list of input images. Let’s see if this works.<\/p>\n

Oh yes, one more thing: In Linux you can easily mount the iDisk with “wdfs  http:\/\/idisk.me.com\/your-id iDisk\/
“.<\/div>\n

Update 2:<\/b> A quick check revealed that the iDisk interface is quasi read-only. Writing new albums or pictures there will not show up in the gallery itself. That would have been too nice. So I guess this is only possible via the (unpublished?) HTTP API of MobileMe itself. Just like the Picasa API<\/a> for uploading and manipulating photos. But it seems the API is quite hard to decipher<\/a>, which is sad, given that Google practically documents all their APIs and encourages mashups and websites using their services.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, the MobileMe gallery upload seems to only like Mac browsers. I have only my SuSE box here, so I tried to upload using Chrom 5.0 and Firefox 3.5. No luck. Both browsers throw errors. Just like this: So far, I cannot find any documentation on this behaviour. I would have assumed that either FFox … Continue reading “MobileMe bugs: Image upload with Linux based browsers impossible”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}