jackwener/OpenCLI · error · CommandExecutionError

HTTP ${result.httpStatus} from /api/me.json

Error message

HTTP ${result.httpStatus} from /api/me.json

What it means

CommandExecutionError thrown when the in-page fetch of /api/me.json in verifyRedditIdentity returns a non-OK status other than 401/403. Unlike the auth kinds, this is treated as a general HTTP failure of the identity probe, not a login problem.

Source

Thrown at clis/reddit/auth.js:33

  const result = await page.evaluate(`(async () => {
    try {
      const res = await fetch('/api/me.json', { credentials: 'include', headers: { 'Accept': 'application/json' } });
      if (res.status === 401 || res.status === 403) {
        return { kind: 'auth', detail: 'Reddit /api/me.json HTTP ' + res.status };
      }
      if (!res.ok) return { kind: 'http', httpStatus: res.status };
      const d = await res.json();
      const data = d && d.data;
      if (!data || !data.name) {
        return { kind: 'auth', detail: 'Reddit /api/me.json 200 but no data.name — anonymous' };
      }
      return { ok: true, username: String(data.name), id: String(data.id || '') };
    } catch (e) {
      return { kind: 'exception', detail: String(e && e.message || e) };
    }
  })()`);
  if (result?.kind === 'auth') throw new AuthRequiredError('reddit.com', result.detail);
  if (result?.kind === 'http') throw new CommandExecutionError(`HTTP ${result.httpStatus} from /api/me.json`);
  if (result?.kind === 'exception') throw new CommandExecutionError(`Reddit whoami failed: ${result.detail}`);
  if (!result?.ok) throw new CommandExecutionError(`Unexpected Reddit probe: ${JSON.stringify(result)}`);
  return { username: result.username, id: result.id };
}

registerSiteAuthCommands({
  site: 'reddit',
  domain: 'reddit.com',
  loginUrl: 'https://www.reddit.com/login',
  columns: ['username', 'id'],
  quickCheck: hasRedditSessionCookie,
  verify: verifyRedditIdentity,
  poll: async (page) => {
    if (!await hasRedditSessionCookie(page)) {
      throw new AuthRequiredError('reddit.com', 'Waiting for Reddit reddit_session cookie');
    }
    return verifyRedditIdentity(page);
  },

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Solutions

1. Wait briefly and retry; check https://www.redditstatus.com for a Reddit outage.
2. Reduce polling frequency — a 429 means you're being rate-limited; back off.
3. Inspect the status in the message; if it's 429 add delays/backoff around repeated auth checks.
4. Verify no proxy/VPN is injecting error responses for www.reddit.com.

Example fix

// before: tight poll loop hitting /api/me.json
while (true) { await verifyRedditIdentity(page); }
// after: backoff on failure
try { await verifyRedditIdentity(page); } catch (e) { await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 30_000)); }

// probe Reddit availability first
const health = await fetch('https://www.reddit.com/api/me.json');
if (health.status >= 500 || health.status === 429) await backoff();

try {
  await opencli.reddit.whoami();
} catch (e) {
  if (/HTTP \d+ from \/api\/me\.json/.test(e.message) && attempts < 3) {
    await sleep(5000 * attempts);
    return retry();
  }
  throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: Reddit's /api/me.json responds with 5xx or other unexpected statuses (e.g. 429 rate limit, 502/503 from Reddit's edge) while the session cookie passes the quick cookie check.

Common situations: Reddit outage or degraded service; aggressive polling tripping Reddit rate limiting (429); corporate proxy intercepting and returning its own error status.

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AI-assisted analysis of jackwener/OpenCLI@49907e53dc (2026-08-29). Data as JSON: /api/errors/e4f8e5ace107cf8a. Report an issue: GitHub.