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Querying GitHub Issues from Google App Script

I'm currently exploring different integrations that can be done between Google App Script and Git. This is part of a bigger attempt to integrate Git data into my project management system. I'll post more on that later. GitHub supports a number of very nice sub-systems. One of them is the GitHub Issues ticket tracking system. It's fairly robust and comes with GitHub - which means it's highly integrated out-of-the-box. Integration with Google's App Script is done via the fetchURL command and JSON object manipulation.  After a good bit of experimentation, I've settled on querying GitHub Issues with an "on open spreadsheet event" to avoid issues with Google's quota system. Essentially, Google prevents you from calling the fetchURL command more than X times (see the quota limits ) per day. That's not great if you have people actively working and changing data in a spreadsheet. Some of my other App Script routines are running thousands of times per d...

Gmail, POP3 and Indy

In my ever expanding need for dealing with the outside world, I've discovered a quirky little thing about Indy 10. When using the TIdPOP3 component with Gmail, you have to manually call DisconnectNotifyPeer or delete commands are ignored. I suppose this isn't quirky as much as not really documented any place I was able to find. Let's backup and start at the beginning, shall we? I have a Windows service that polls a POP3 account looking for messages that it can import into a DB. It has all sorts of fun rules that can be assigned to discover what needs to be imported, what database it goes into, etc. At any rate, this code has been merrily chugging away on both Yahoo and SmarterMail servers with nary a hiccup. I recently needed to watch a Google domain app e-mail address and didn't think much of it. Of course, in order to do so you have to implement SSL for POP3. As I've posted in the past, this is not really much of an issue, you simply create the TIdSSLIOHandlerSock...

Indy and HTTPS Post

I'm back to work on the HTTPS Post issue with DHL's ShipIt XML API. The problem I'm having is when I use Indy to post the xml via an HTTPS post, the response is that the file is malformed. I should mention that I'm using a relatively recent version of Indy 10. If I use FF (if you don't have it, check out the Poster add-on, let's you play with the HTTP functions using FF's libraries) it works fine. The first problem is that it's a little hard to see what FF is actually doing that is different from what Indy is doing. Enter Fiddler , stage right. Fiddler is an http proxy that captures that http information and lets you manipulate it or display the raw headers. So, pointing FF to the localhost proxy on port 8888, the headers I get are: POST /apilandingtest.asp HTTP/1.1 Host: ecommerce.airborne.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0...

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