Authentication missing message......

[Soundchasr]

I've been trying to download from a few different sites and I keep getting this message:
2013-11-05 11:07:31,368 WARNING: Authentication missing, please enter username/password from Config->General into your 3rd party program: ::1>Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0

Any idea what might be causing this?

[sander]

It's Firefox/26.0 on the machine SABnzbd is running on.

[Soundchasr]

Anything I can do?

[sander]

Anything I can do?

Certainly!

Clever method:
- Do NOT access http://localhost:8080/api?... like http://localhost:8080/api?mode=qstatus from Firefox
- Find out if you have installed a sabnzbd plugin in Firefox. Remove it, disable it, or configure it with the correct API key

(Very) Brute force:
- stop using Firefox. Use Chrome instead
- In SABnzbd: Config -> General: check "Disable API-key" so that no API-key is needed anymore
- ...<more brute force stuff on request>

[Soundchasr]

Thank you! I will try the clever method first.

[Soundchasr]

Ok. I removed the sabnzdb plugin in Firefox. Now I get this error:
2013-11-05 14:32:43,226 WARNING: Authentication missing, please enter username/password from Config->General into your 3rd party program: ::1>Python-urllib/2.5

[sander]

Ok. I removed the sabnzdb plugin in Firefox. Now I get this error:
2013-11-05 14:32:43,226 WARNING: Authentication missing, please enter username/password from Config->General into your 3rd party program: ::1>Python-urllib/2.5

So there is yet another program running and trying to access the SABnzbd API. Did you install Sickbeard or Couchpotato? If so, ... see my previous advice: remove, disable or configure it

[Soundchasr]

Dang. No, I don't have either of those. Is there a way to figure where it's coming from?

[sander]

Dang. No, I don't have either of those. Is there a way to figure where it's coming from?

Sure?

If so, let's go brute force: change the port SABnzbd is running on from 8080 to something like 8888. The 'offending' application won't find SAB anymore and the problem will be gone ...

Warning: only do this if you know what 8080 and 8888 mean, and how you can access that.

[Soundchasr]

Thank you for the warning. I know a little about port forwarding (meaning I can forward a port) and I know where to change the port in SABnzbd config but I don't know what exactly I should do in this instance.

[sander]

Thank you for the warning. I know a little about port forwarding (meaning I can forward a port) and I know where to change the port in SABnzbd config but I don't know what exactly I should do in this instance.

I will not tell you ... otherwise there is a risk that you come back saying you can't access SABnzbd anymore.

Tip: it has not to do with port forwarding.

[Soundchasr]

C'mon!!! :-) You gotta give me better hints than that!!

[shypike]

Sander meant that you should change SABnzbd's port number in Config->General.
It would mean that any utility trying to access SABnzbd can no longer do so.
Port-forwarding is something else, as you will probably know.

[Soundchasr]

Thanks. I changed the port that way and had the same issue. I did find a fix - more of a brute force fix as Sander would say. I uninstalled Sabnzbd and everything I could find related to it in the registry and elsewhere. I re-installed and the problem is gone. Not sure what it was.

Thanks for the follow up.

[shypike]

Not sure what it was.

To be honest, nor have I.