rflickr: invalid auth token when uploading

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Hi, I'm working on an application which uses rflickr to upload images to flickr. I've generated and cached an auth token as described in the GETTING STARTED document in the rflickr tree. However, when I call the API, I receive an error stating "ERR: Invalid auth token (98)". The extended error is:

XMLRPC::FaultException (Invalid auth token):     /vendor/plugins/rflickr-2006.02.01/lib/flickr/upload.rb:70:in `error'     /vendor/plugins/rflickr-2006.02.01/lib/flickr/upload.rb:179:in `upload_image'

Any insight into this error will be greatly appreciated.

Here is the action that gets executed on an upload request:

  def upload     incoming_file = params['flickr_image']     content_type = incoming_file.content_type.chomp     msg_out = nil

    responds_to_parent do       render :update do |page|         if content_type.rindex(/image\/[(jpe?g)||(gif)||(png)]/)           cache_file = "#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/cache/flickr.cache"

          if File.exist? cache_file             flickr = Flickr.new(cache_file)

            msg_out = flickr.photos.upload.upload_image(               incoming_file,               content_type,               incoming_file.original_filename,               params[:flickr_title],               params[:flickr_description],               params[:flickr_tags].scan(/"[\w ]+"|\w+/).collect{ |tag| tag.gsub( /"/, '' ) }             )           end         else           page.alert "Please upload an image file."         end       end     end     return   end

When I inspect the flickr object, I get the following:

"#<Flickr:0xb5c2dfac @person_by_nsid={}, @test=nil, @shared_secret=\"\", @interestingness=nil, @reflection=nil, @photosets=nil, @api_key=\"\", @favorites=nil, @auth=nil, @caching=true, @client=#<XMLRPC::Client:0xb5c2de30 @http_header_extra=nil, @proxy_port=nil, @parser=nil, @proxy_host=nil, @host=\"www.flickr.com\", @create=nil, @auth=nil, @user=nil, @port=80, @use_ssl=false, @cookie=nil, @http=#<Net::HTTP www.flickr.com:80 open=false>, @password=nil, @timeout=30, @http_last_response=nil, @path=\"/services/xmlrpc/\">, @endpoint=\"http://www.flickr.com/services/xmlrpc/\\&quot;, @photos=nil, @groups=nil, @auth_mode=true, @photoset_by_id={}, @ticket_by_id={}, @contacts=nil, @blog_cache=nil, @group_by_id={}, @urls=nil, @token_cache=\"/cache/flickr.cache\", @license_cache=nil, @photopool_by_id={}, @people=nil, @async=false, @photo_by_id={}, @blogs=nil>"