403 - Insufficient Permission only on accountSummaries call - google-analytics-api

I'm getting rejected only on the accountSummaries/list management call, everything else works fine - heck, it works even when executing it from the reference page! I double checked that the account being used was correct and, as I said, I have no issues performing the simple accounts/list call.
I'm using the python library, and for both of those calls no parameters are needed (so the chance of some embarrassing error are very low).
Basically I'm simply getting the service client and performing the simplest possible call:
a = client.AnalyticsManagementClient() # super simple wrapper
a._service.management().accounts().list().execute()
a._service.management().accountSummaries().list().execute()
The first call works fine, the second one returns a 403 error. Anyone have an idea why that might happen?
Full error is HttpError: <HttpError 403 when requesting https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/management/accountSummaries?alt=json returned "Insufficient Permission">

It was just a scope issue: accounts needs at least one among
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.edit
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly
while accountSummaries allows only the last two; it seems to be the only one that does not work with the analytics scope, which is the one our client was requesting.

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I am working on a program than launches Jenkins jobs using the REST API. After the job has completed, I'd like to get its log, so I call http://jenkins.domain.com/job/my_job_name/#/consoleText in my code.
In 75% of the cases that works and I get the text in return. But there a some cases where it comes back with HttpStatus 100 and no text. (Opening the URL with the browser then shows the text, so clearly there is something to return.) (I haven't found any pattern that would explain it, like "exceptionally large log" or so.)
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Apache ManifoldCF: Get a history report for a repository connection over REST API

I'm trying to get a history report for a repository connection over ManifoldCF REST API. According to the documentation:
https://manifoldcf.apache.org/release/release-2.11/en_US/programmatic-operation.html#History+query+parameters
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So in the same way as in any other URL.
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http://localhost:8345/mcf-api-service/json/repositoryconnectionhistory/myConnection?activity=process&activity=fetch
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phpmailer error codes for outcome processing

I am building a mailout capability and it is working OK as far as it goes. However, I want to distinguish between various potential (high level) outcomes in order to determine what happens to each message after the current send attempt.
This must be a common requirement so I seem to be missing something pretty obvious, but I can't find anything that addresses it, either here or via Google or on PHPMailer site or .. . Possibly because there are so many questions about specific errors that I just can't find anything useful in all the other results.
At very high level:
Attempt send, and assess resulting error/result. Identify whether this message has been sent, must be retried later, or failed permanently.
- success -> update message status as 'SENT: OK'
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- failed, due to temporary problem (e.g. connection problem, attachment open) -> 'TRY LATER'
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As I was unable to find an existing resource with e.g. a table of errors, I spent some time working through the phpmailerException code to try to build one myself, but it's not simple because a) they don't appear to have been designed in terms of this kind of grouping logic, b) it is not easy to uniquely identify a particular error: PHPMailer provides human-friendly messages, which are different in different languages, rather than an identifiable code - given that my solution will need to work across different language installations that's a problem!
Obviously SMTP itself provides a range of errorcodes which I could potentially use for this purpose, but how do I access these via PHPMailer? (This would work for me as I only use SMTP at this point - however, this would NOT work if other message transport like sendmail was used, so I would prefer a PHPMailer solution)
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FiddlerScript throws NullReferenceException on headers.ExistsAndContains

This is driving me nuts and it may be something simple, but every time I call the following from Fiddler script is throws a NullReferenceException:
if (oSession.oResponse.headers.ExistsAndContains("Content-Type", "html")){...
This is straight off the Fiddler script knowledge base and I've got the same thing happening on two different Win 8 machines. It seems that oSession.oResponse.headers is null and yes, I am calling this from within OnBeforeRequest!
Same deal with oSession.responseBodyBytes - it looks like the response is null inside OnBeforeRequest. Otherwise Fiddler is behaving normally, traffic proxies through just fine and everything else looks good.
Ideas?
The oResponse.headers and oSession.responseBodyBytes objects don't exist until after the request has been sent to the server and the response has been read back. If you want to interact with the Response headers and body, do so inside the OnBeforeResponse function instead.
The KB was mangled a bit when updated for the new site. I'll file a bug to have this made more explicit.

Proper way to convey error messages during calls to a REST service?

I'm writing a REST based web service, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle error conditions.
Currently the service is returning HTTP Errors, such as Bad Request, but how can I return extra information to give developers using the web service an idea what they're doing wrong?
For example: creating a user with a null username returns an error of Bad Request. How can I add that the error was caused by a null username parameter?
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Pass a human readable message anyway. Return 400 Bad Request with a HTML response, which the client may opt to show to the user. It's dead easy but it's a bit like throwing an unchecked exception, it passes all the hard work to the client, or indeed the end user.
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You could even make the server support both scenarios by defining a media type for the machie readable error recovery document, and allow clients to "accept" them: Accept: application/atom+xml, application/my.proprietary.errors+json
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String desc = "my Description";
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