I'm trying to build a one off webapp that will communicate with our business QuickBooks Online account. Most of the research I've found says for development and testing, use the "desktop" way of connecting (to avoid cert headaches). So I've registered an app and got the id from here:
appreg.intuit.com/
The problem is, everywhere I've seen tell me then to go here to get a connection ticket
login.ptc.quickbooks.com/j/qbn/sdkapp/confirm?serviceid=2004&appid=YOUR-APPLICATION-ID-HERE
When I do that however, it redirects me to here
qbo.intuit.com/c1/v60.147/0/login?redirect=true
I mucked around with and finally find some way to access the "old" quick books stuff, when i went to setup a test company it sent me here
ptc.qbo.intuit.com/c1/v0/offline.shtml
which tells me
"The QBO PTC environment is no longer available, and was replaced by the new E2E environment. Please go to https://e2e.qbo.intuit.com/ going forward. We are very sorry for any inconvenience and confusion. If you have questions, please reach out to Eric Bullen"
How can I get a connection to a test account to do some development?
How can I get a connection to a test account to do some development?
Unless you're an Intuit employee, you can't get a test account.
With that said, you don't need to.
Just use your live QuickBooks Online account. You can sign up on their website to get a 30-day free trial if you need to.
When you register at https://appreg.intuit.com new link - http://developer.intuit.com/Application/Create/QBOE, make sure you register in DESKTOP mode, for the PRODUCTION environment.
Then use the production URL to get your connection ticket:
https://login.quickbooks.com/j/qbn/sdkapp/confirm?appid=YOUR-APPLICATION-ID-HERE&serviceid=2004&appdata=1
(substitute in your application ID that you get back from appreg)
More info and examples on our QuickBooks integration wiki.
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I run Google Ads on my Google-App-Engine-hosted website (www.bigriddles.com), and they tell me I need to have an "ads.txt" file served from the root domain (i.e. http://bigriddles.com/ads.txt, as opposed to http://www.bigriddles.com/ads.txt).
My DNS is hosted on Gandi, and I created their "ALIAS" record (which I think just does CNAME flattening or something similar) to alias "bigriddles.com" to "ghs.googlehosted.com." I chose "ghs.googlehosted.com" because that's what I CNAMEd "www.bigriddles.com" to (many years back), and that CNAME has been working fine.
However, now when I visit "bigriddles.com", I get an "HTTP 301 Moved" to "www.bigriddles.com", and as far as I can tell, this response isn't coming from any code I wrote (I've looked through my code and don't see anything that would redirect this). Furthermore, there is a "Server: ghs" header in the response from "bigriddles.com", whereas if I visit "www.bigriddles.com", which works fine, the response includes the header "Server: Google Frontend". I'm not sure if there is some hint of my problem in the difference between those two Server headers.
Anyway, I'm not sure exactly what's going wrong. It could be a DNS issue. I say this because "dig www.bigriddles.com" comes back with the IP 172.217.14.115, whereas "dig bigriddles.com" comes back with "172.217.168.211", so maybe one of these really is a "ghs" server and the other is a "Google Frontend" server (I'm not sure the difference) and this "ALIAS" DNS solution just isn't going to work.
More likely though I feel like maybe there is just some settings problem with my App itself where it's not set up to allow the apex domain "bigriddles.com", and if I change that setting it will start working?
I have gone through the steps on https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/mapping-custom-domains. When I view the "Custom Domains" for my project, I see "www.bigriddles.com" and "m.bigriddles.com", but I don't see the naked domain "bigriddles.com". However, when I try to add it on that page, it tells me that "bigriddles.com" is already mapped to a project, so I'm not sure what to make of that.
Any help would be appreciated, thank you!
This seems like an issue with your domain provider.
You can use this tool that might help you contact the domain provider with detailed info.
If they insist it's not an issue on their side (I strongly believe it is), then you should contact Google Cloud Platform Support so a deeper inspection can be made on your project.
If you're also using G Suites for your domain, the criminal is G Suites' Domain -> Redirect. If it is, it's a pity that Google does not let us turn off the so-called feature.
Since G Suites use as the same entry point as App Engine, you have no chance to solve this other than moving your site outside Google services or stop using G Suite.
I am code signing a Mac app using my Developer ID certificate so we can send it to beta testers. Thanks to helpful articles here I made sure I have the right certificate and private key. (This is a new app id) When I select Developer ID and Archive, I select to distribute with Developer ID and it validates all the checks successfully (Using Xcode 6.1) and creates my app file. When I launch it I crash with this in console (another great tip found here to check console for the REAL error):
killed com.[appname.OSX][pid 5946] because its use of the com.apple.developer.maps entitlement is not allowed (error code -67050)
11/7/14 11:26:23.263 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.VIPorbit.OSX.192016[5946]) Binary is improperly signed.
So, I know the docs say you cannot distribute an app with Maps outside of the MacApp Store, but I assume this mean selling Mac apps as is often done. We are using the Mac App Store all the way. Also I can successfully archive and submit to the Mac App Store and we're in review.
The challenge is we want to get this out to some beta folks and Maps is a key feature we've added. I really don't want to go the old route with getting this Mac info and adding it to the provisioning file, defeats the purpose of the Developer ID option.
Anyone else experience this?
You can't distribute an application utilizing MapKit with a Developer ID.
MapKit is an Mac App Store-only feature.
It's a shame that this is not clear from the documentation.
If you want to test the app before the Mac App Store submission, I am afraid you have to add beta-testers' machines to the provisioning profile and sign the bundle with a "Mac Developer: ..." code signing identity.
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Well, I'm having a weird error here:
I'm developing one GAE app to read some Twitter Data, and after read a lot of docs, I have it working on my test server (Running on my pc) but after deploy and test on the real (my appspot domain) it shows this message:
401:Authentication credentials (https://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth) were missing or >incorrect. Ensure that you have set valid consumer key/secret, access token/secret, and the >system clock is in sync.
message - Could not authenticate you
code - 32
I've tried to recreate my OAuthAppToken and OAuthAppTokenSecret keys, even changing the permissions to "Write, Read and Direct Messages" and even assingning one Callback URL but nothing seems to work...
I've tried using twitter4j.properties OR using setOAuthConsumer(TW_CONSUMER_KEY, TW_CONSUMER_SECRET) OR a ConfigurationBuilder whith the correct constants and I'm experimenting the same Issue.
I'm working with AppEngine 1.8.3 and Twitter4j 3.0.4
Iv'e been writing on log and the Twitter object seems to be well created... I dont understand why is working on my PC but not on the real app.
On some other post someone says that could be because it needs to use Sync clock.. but he doesn't explains where to change that property...
Did someone had a clue?
Ok, the problem was me (and Twitter.... well..... I really think it was Twitter problem for being so dark on his api messages)...
On testing server I was looking for an existing account and on the cloud I was looking for an inexistent one. So, It was my mistake. But seriously, what about Twitter saying: "Access Forbidden"? That doesn't have any sense...
I am using the variables to configure the same "connection string" between two applications, since the two do access the same database of users.
Can I set the same SQL Server (Nano 10GB) in more than one application to use transformation for web.config?
This is not currently possible since there is no way to have the connectionsstring injected into other applications than the one that has the add-on provisioned. Feel free to add this as a feedback suggestion.
It is possible, but requires some legwork. Basically you need to have one app with a known location (URL is fine) that the others can ask for the Connection String. The hard part is doing it securely enough. I'm partway there...
I've rigged up a system where you have a password that both of your Apps know in AppSettings, and then have the Secondary Website send a Public Key to the Primary Website with the password. Who then encodes the connection string, and sends it back.
The password CAN be injected by Appharbor when it does a deploy. And the connection string is also setup on the deploy. Ideally you'd use SSL but I don't have that setup and it makes life hard when working locally.
Proof Of Concept: https://bitbucket.org/Rangoric/database-coordination/overview
It does work, just start both of the website projects in there, and go to http://localhost:4002/Database and you will see what is in the connection String of the Primary website.
EDIT: I just realized that since you can piggyback the SSL Cert of appharbor with the free subdomain they give you, you can use that URL for added security if you don't have your own SSL cert.
I'm working on building a Silverlight application whereas we want to be able to have a client hit a url like:
http://{client}.domain.com/
and login, where the {client} part is their business name. so for example, google's would be:
http://google.domain.com/
What I was wondering was if anyone has been able, in silverlight, to be able to use this subdomain model to make decisions on the call to the web server so that you can switch to a specific database to run a query? Unfortunately, it's something that is quite necessary for the project, as we are trying to make it easy for their employees to get their company specific information for our software.
Wouldn't it work to put the service on a specific subdomain itself, such as wcf.example.com, and then setup a cross domain policy file on the service to allow it to access it?
As long as this would work you could just load the silverlight in the proper subdomain and then pass that subdomain to your service and let it do its thing.
Some examples of this below:
Silverlight Cross Domain Services
Silverlight Cross Domain Policy Helpers
On the server side you can check the HTTP 1.1 Host header to see how the user came to your server and do the necessary customization based on that.
I think you cannot do this with Silverlight alone, I know you cannot do this without problems with Javascript, Ajax etc. . That is because a sub domain is - for security reasons - treated otherwise than a sub-page by the browsers.
What about the following idea: Insert a rewrite rule to your web server software. So if http://google.domain.com is called, the web server itself rewrites the URL to something like http://www.domain.com/google/ (or better: http://www.domain.com/customers/google/). Would that help?
Georgi:
That would help if it would be static, but alas, it's going to all be dynamic. My hope was to have 1x deployment for the application, and to use the http://google.domain.com/ idea to switch to the correct database for the user. I recall doing this once when we built an asp.net website, using the domain context to figure out what skin to use, etc.
Ates: Can you explain more about what you are saying... sounds like you are close to what I am trying to come up with. Have you seen such a tutorial for this?
The only other way I have come up with to make this work is to have a metabase that when the user logs in, it will switch them to the appropriate database as required... was just thinking as well that telling Client x to hit:
http://ClientX.domain.com/ would have been sweeter than saying to hit http://www.domain.com/ and login. It seemed as if they were to hit their name, and to show it personalized for them right from the login screen would have been much more appealing for the client base.
#Richard B: No, I can't think of any such tutorial that I've seen before. I'll try to be more verbose.
The server-side approach in more detail:
Direct *.example.com to the same IP in your DNS settings.
The backend app that handles login checks the Host HTTP header (e.g. the "HTTP_HOST" server variable in some platforms). That would contain the exact subdomain.example.com that the client used for reaching your server. Extract the subdomain part and continue...
There can also be a client-side-only approach. I don't know much about Silverlight but I'm assuming that you should be able to interface Silverlight with JavaScript. You could read document.location with JavaScript and pass it to your Silverlight applet, whereon further data fetching etc. logic would rely on the subdomain that was passed in by JavaScript.
#Ates:
That is what we did when we wrote the ASP.Net system... we pushed a slew of *.example.com hosts against the web server, and handled using the HTTP headers. The hold-up comes when dealing with WCF pushing the info between the client and the server... it can only exist in one domain...
So, for example, when you have {client}.example.com and {sandbox}.example.com, the WCF service can't be registered to both. It also cannot be registered to just *.example.com or example.com, so that's where the catch 22 is coming in at. everything else I have the prior knowledge of handling.
I recall a method by which an application can "spoof" another domain name in certain instances. I take it in this case, I would need to do such a configuration? Much to research yet I believe.