It seems eBay’s Picture service (EPS) is having issues at the moment. Several GarageSale customers reported receiving the error message today:
XML Error Text: “org.apache.commons.fileupload.MultipartStream$MalformedStreamException”.
We reported the issue to eBay’s developer support and hope they are fixing it to.
As it seems only some of eBay servers are effected, so if you are facing this issue, we recommend to wait a few minutes and try again. Hopefully you will be connected to a different eBay server who isn’t facing this problem.
Event if you are not using EPS as your primary image upload destination in GarageSale, you might run into this issue, as GarageSale is always uploading an image to EPS.
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Thanks to everybody that supplied a eBay username.
Word from eBay is that they upgraded their EPS servers yesterday to add HTTPS support. My guess is that they replaced the code that has been working fine for years with something new and shiny.
I further assume that only some of there EPS servers have been upgraded, so when you are lucky GarageSale is hitting a non-upgraded server.
We supplied them with logging output that should make it trivial for eBay to identify the issue. Let’s see how this goes.
Suddenly I can’t upload listings. I get an Apache.commons etc etc error, and my Preferences panel is asking me to enter FTP Server information that I never had to in the past. I’ve been using the updated GS with no problem until today. Is this related to the EPS issue: