Test failure with latest 'curl' due to redirect to eu.kobotoolbox.org

[jeroen]

The latest version of the curl package changes the default for CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH to 0, which causes the CRAN version of KoboconnectR to fail its tests:

* checking tests ...
  Running ‘spelling.R’
  Running ‘testthat.R’
 ERROR
Running the tests in ‘tests/testthat.R’ failed.
Last 13 lines of output:
    'test-kobo_export_create.R:21:3', 'test-kobo_export_create.R:30:3',
    'test-kobo_exports.R:2:3', 'test-kobo_xls_dl.R:2:3',
    'test-kobotools_api.R:31:3', 'test-kobotools_kpi_data.R:38:3'

  ══ Failed tests ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
  ── Failure ('test-kobo_df_download.R:10:3'): invalid input fails ───────────────
  `is.null(...)` did not throw the expected error.
  ── Failure ('test-kobo_media_downloader.R:10:3'): invalid input fails ──────────
  `is.null(kobo_media_downloader(uname = "scary_", pwd = "sy", assetid = "ahwQoXtnbQJB"))` did not throw the expected error.
  ── Failure ('test-kobo_xls_dl.R:12:3'): invalid input fails ────────────────────
  `is.null(kobo_xls_dl(uname = "scary_", pwd = "sy", assetid = "ahwQoXtnbQJB"))` did not throw the expected error.

  [ FAIL 3 | WARN 3 | SKIP 10 | PASS 25 ]
  Error: Test failures
  Execution halted

The problem is that your package makes an authenticated HTTP request to https://kobo.humanitarianresponse.info/ but this API seems to have moved and gets redirected to to https://eu.kobotoolbox.org/.

For security reasons, the new version of curl no longer automatically sends the credentials to the redirected host.

The easiest solution is to search-and-replace kobo.humanitarianresponse.info with eu.kobotoolbox.org in your code.

[asitav-sen]

Hi @jeroen ,
Thanks a ton for letting me know. I have just submitted the amended version. I will post here if the submission is accepted.

[jeroen]

OK thank you I see it is on cran now. Maybe you should also push the update here to GitHub.