Tried searching for anyone else who's had this error, but couldn't find anything.

I've just transferred servers, and I get this error message. There's no error code though, just "Could not connect to Flickr, Error:". Everything else looks normal.

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kody commented

How can I help debug this further?

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andrewlevine commented

What happens when you run this command from your server: wget http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/

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kody commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

After some hunting, I realized that drupal was unable to reach any 3rd party site. The server had changed some setting that prevented drupal from doing update checks, flickr functionality, etc.

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mkrakowiak commented

Hi kody,
I'm experiencing the same problem - my server has not been able to contact any 3rd party site, and my web host doesn't know what the problem is. What did you do to fix it?

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jpshayes commented

Hi mkrakowiak,

Did you ever figure this out? I just transfered servers and I too am experiencing the same problem.
Error reads
Could not connect to Flickr, Error: Permission denied.

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mkrakowiak commented

It got fixed long time ago... I don't remember now what it was though. I think it was some server config settings that I had to ask my web host to fix. Test it on other server and see if you get similar outcome.
Sorry that I can't help you more.

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jpshayes commented

I figured it out. The server I was using was blocking outbound connections. I had to submit a request for them to open up the ip address and port I was trying to connect to.

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oivasyk commented
Issue summary: View changes

Try to use dev version of module, or try to change FLICKR_REST_ENDPOINT from http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/ to https://api.flickr.com/services/rest . Hope it would be helpful for somebody.