Hi, In the v13 version of the API I don't believe the accounts became unlocked automatically, and you needed to fill out this CAPTCHA to unlock them:
https://www.google.com/accounts/UnlockCaptcha As for how to emulate the ClientLogin CAPTCHA challenges, the best way to make excessive requests. An example using the Java client library is available here: http://code.google.com/p/google-api-adwords-java/source/browse/trunk/examples/utils/AuthTokenExample.java#126 Best, - Eric On Apr 20, 5:38 am, Zweitze <zwei...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the explanation - the error makes sense now. > > Funniest thing happened this morning, for one of the previous > offending accounts the software got an auth token without problems, > but a later call to the (legacy) AccountService produced error 86, > "The specified account has been blocked due to excessive failed > logins." The error came without a request id. And I can't reproduce > that one either, apparently those blocked accounts are also unlocked > after five minutes. Can you confirm that? > > Anyway, I'll rewrite the software to cache the authtokens. > One more question, how can I enforce this situation on a test account? > > Thanks, > - Zweitze. > > -- > =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ > Have you migrated to v200909 yet? > The v13 sunset is on April 22, 2010. > > Also find us on our blog and discussion > group:http://adwordsapi.blogspot.comhttp://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api > =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. > To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Have you migrated to v200909 yet? The v13 sunset is on April 22, 2010. Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en