Unable to post message to http://www.youtube.com. Recipient has origin https://www.youtube.com

Question

My app at http://beta.billboard.fm is producing errors in my normal browsing session after playing a single song.

If i reload the page in incognito, the app works fully. I only recently starting experiencing these issues. I have completed cleared all of the cache and it works again, but only temporarily before throwing the same errors.

Additionally I have disable all browser extensions.

But, no matter what I do I can't get this error from being thrown by the Youtube API:

Unable to post message to http://www.youtube.com. Recipient has origin https://www.youtube.com

It looks like there is a mismatch in the security protocols. I tried changing them to https or just removing "http:" all together on my side. But it did not resolve the issue.

Any one have an idea what is happening here?

Answer 1

It is quite clear to me at this point that this is a major bug in Google/YouTube's API. They have written some bad code somewhere. This bug is not a consistent thing. This is well documented by the fact that everybody's code works just fine for an extended period of time, and then they discover that all of a sudden their sites stop working properly. Additionally, all of my websites that had this problem last week are now working without a glitch - again, without me altering code.

So while it sucks to say this - the onus is on Google & YouTube to fix this and provide APIs that actually work as advertised... It doesn't look to me like there's anything we can do about it on our own :(

Answer 2

I am having the same problem - I also tried changing my links to http: to https: and vice-versa with no luck. I found this tread on Google Groups, but so far there has been no response. https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=4697

Clearing my cache allowed the player to work for a few videos, but after 3 or 4, the same error pops back up.