{"id":3045,"date":"2015-05-26T23:42:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T03:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2015-05-26T23:42:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T03:42:52","slug":"blogger-connection-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/3045\/blogger-connection-failures","title":{"rendered":"Blogger Connection Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am disheartened to confirm that as of today, May 26, 2015, MarsEdit will fail to connect to any blogs hosted on Google&#8217;s Blogger\/Blogspot service.<\/p>\n<p>MarsEdit has supported Blogger for many, many years. A side-effect of having supported it for so long is the app uses an authentication method, ClientLogin, which has been phased out over time, and is <a href=\"http:\/\/googledevelopers.blogspot.ch\/2015\/02\/reminder-clientlogin-shutdown-scheduled.html\">no longer supported<\/a> by Google.<\/p>\n<p>Although I knew that Google was encouraging developers to adopt a newer authentication method, I was not aware that the ClientLogin mechanism would be shut down this month, or even this year.<\/p>\n<p>I am committed to maintaining support\u00a0for Blogger in MarsEdit, but adapting to a new authentication method is a non-trivial change, and not something I can turn around immediately. I will make it a priority to update MarsEdit as soon as possible, and will post again on this blog when a beta release is ready for testing, so that Blogger users who are anxious to return to MarsEdit can give it a try.<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time unfortunately I don&#8217;t know of any workaround that will allow Blogger users to continue using MarsEdit. I appreciate your patience while I work to update the app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am disheartened to confirm that as of today, May 26, 2015, MarsEdit will fail to connect to any blogs hosted on Google&#8217;s Blogger\/Blogspot service. MarsEdit has supported Blogger for many, many years. A side-effect of having supported it for so long is the app uses an authentication method, ClientLogin, which has been phased out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marsedit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3046,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions\/3046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}