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brotab active/activate: urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 500: INTERNAL SERVER ERROR

See original GitHub issue

Hello,

brotab active

results in

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/_user/.local/bin/brotab", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/_user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/brotab/main.py", line 670, in main
    exit(run_commands(sys.argv[1:]))
  File "/home/_user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/brotab/main.py", line 663, in run_commands
    result = args.func(args)
  File "/home/_user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/brotab/main.py", line 175, in show_active_tabs
    tabs = api.get_active_tabs(args)
  File "/home/_user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/brotab/api.py", line 115, in get_active_tabs
    return [self.prefix_tab(tab) for tab in self._get('/get_active_tabs').split(',')]
  File "/home/_user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/brotab/api.py", line 249, in _get
    with urlopen(request, timeout=HTTP_TIMEOUT) as response:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 222, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 531, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 640, in http_response
    response = self.parent.error(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 569, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 502, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 500: INTERNAL SERVER ERROR

I’m on Ubuntu 20.04, and this used to work (just ~2 days ago). Might be an update in Chrome?

(A similar issue occurs with brotab activate)

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Created 2 years ago
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balta2arcommented, May 29, 2022

Communication of mediator with browser has been subject to changes in the newly released 1.4.0, so I hope it works better now – so give it a try. If anything, please comment here and I’ll reopen the issue.

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doctorcolossuscommented, Mar 27, 2022

@bjohas Sorry, I am sometimes bad about keeping up with my github notifications and just saw this. I am overwhelmed with other tasks at the moment, but will put this on my to-do list and link to a pull-request here when I am able to get this done!

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