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I've been making photosynths for a few years on my travels but in China I can't seem to log in via the Photosynth app. I get this error:

photosynth login error
(In fact I hadn't realized until now that it's tied in to Windows Live.)

Oddly the Photosynth website is not blocked. You can view synths fine.

I've done some searching and can't find anybody else talking about not being able to make synths while in China.

It's been suggested by user djerry that it could be my proxy settings, but they seem to be set the recommended way as in the blog post about the issue:

proxy settings

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hippietrail
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I've done some research, and there might be several reasons why you cannot log in to PhotoSynth:

  • This application uses application/soap+xml which is often blocked by companies or in China perhaps authorities (see post)
  • Toggling the "automatically detect settings" option in IE can solve the issue (see post)
  • Uncheck "Check for publisher's certificate revocation" and " Check server fro certificate revocation" options

These are the most succesful results in case of this error.

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install Wireshark and check what site is it using to authenticate, then check it with this tool, and ping it from your computer. If it does not work on your computer, but the check says it's fine, then this might be an another problem