Social plugin causing "Connection refused error"

[holgerflick]

Hi everybody,

I only have this issue on one of my two computers. Both are macOS and have the same config. At least I thought so.

mkdocs serve does not work properly on the system that I installed recently. I could determine the social plugin as the cause of the error messages. I can ignore the error messages, but what makes this worse is that after the first successful creation on the next file change and rebuild the building process gets stuck and I have to restart mkdocs serve in the Terminal.

This is the error message I get:

WARNING:root:Remote image could not been reached: http://127.0.0.1:8000/assets/images/social/blog/posts/14-results.png. Trying again with GET and disabling SSL verification. Attempt: 1. Trace: <urlopen error [Errno 61] Connection refused> WARNING:root:Remote image could not been reached: http://127.0.0.1:8000/assets/images/social/blog/posts/14-results.png. Trying again with GET and disabling SSL verification. Attempt: 2. Trace: <urlopen error [Errno 61] Connection refused>

I get this for all of the posts in my "first" blog. I have multiple blogs on the site. I also tried rearranging different plugins and also defining social after and before the blogs. No change. As said, it only happens to the blog in the blog directory.

I also tried several configurations for the plugin explicitly listing all directories. No success.

Any hints? I apologize if I missed any setting that is required for this to work, but the amount of configuration options makes it easy to miss something ...

[squidfunk]

Could you please provide a minimal reproduction? It is unclear whether this is an environment error or a bug in the social plugin. We need to see if we can reproduce it on our machines to be sure. Also note that the code base of the social plugin in the community edition and Insiders are different, as the plugin got a rewrite that was yet not released to the community edition. If you follow the reproduction steps, we'll get all information we need.

[holgerflick]

This is the "fix":

- rss:
      use_material_social_cards: false
      match_path: blog/posts/.*
      date_from_meta:
        as_creation: date
      categories:
        - categories
        - tags

It disables social cards in the RSS feed.

[squidfunk]

Could you please attach this reproduction here?

[squidfunk]

The thing that is weird here is that the social plugin does not fetch or request the image it generates. It fetches fonts from Google (which seems to work in your case, as social cards get generated, right?), but that's about it. This sounds to me that the RSS plugin could be doing something here that leads to the error. Thus it might be worth reporting upstream, if you can pinpoint the problem

[squidfunk]

There it is. The RSS plugin fetches the image and that seems to run into an error with SSL. Please report this upstream.

[holgerflick]

Also filed an issue with the project on GitHub best I can express it.