3.8.1

Only affects stores that cannot finish connecting to eBay. If yours is connected and syncing, nothing here changes for you.

Some hosts were blocking the connection

A few stores could never finish connecting to eBay, no matter how many times they tried. The cause was outside the plugin: their host runs security software that intercepts the request the plugin makes to collect your eBay tokens, and answers it with a "checking your browser" page instead of passing it on.

That page is meant for a web browser — it expects you to be sent back a few seconds later once a check has passed. The plugin is not a browser, so it can never get past it. That is why it failed every single time rather than occasionally.

The plugin now spots that page and makes the same request again by a different route, which these filters do not object to. Connecting then works normally.

If you were already connecting without trouble, nothing changes — the plugin makes exactly one request as it always did.

Renewals too

Your eBay connection renews itself periodically. That renewal now takes the same route, so a store that managed to connect while the filter happened to be quiet will not suddenly break weeks later when its token comes up for renewal.

If it still fails

Some hosts may block both routes. The plugin's log will name the server that answered, which is the piece of information your host needs to find it. Send us that line and we will tell you exactly what to ask them.