Macro Browser Not Responding

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Summary

Symptoms

The macro browser is not responding, causing you to be unable to insert other macros or cancel the window. It appears frozen with the following error appearing in the atlassian-confluence.log:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ERROR [http-8090-5] [renderer.internal.http.HttpClientFetcher] fetch Unable to retrieve response -- url: /conf/plugins/macrobrowser/browse-macros.action | userName: Pixy | referer: http://support.ixysap.com:8090/conf/display/STEL/2.0.x+Configuration | action: browse-macros org.apache.http.conn.ConnectTimeoutException: Connect to hanis.atlassian.net/132.103.29.50:443 timed out at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.connectSocket(SSLSocketFactory.java:335) at com.atlassian.gadgets.renderer.internal.http.HttpClientFetcher$CustomSSLSocketFactory.connectSocket(HttpClientFetcher.java:193) at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnectionOperator.openConnection(DefaultClientConnectionOperator.java:123) at org.apache.http.impl.conn.AbstractPoolEntry.open(AbstractPoolEntry.java:147) at org.apache.http.impl.conn.AbstractPooledConnAdapter.open(AbstractPooledConnAdapter.java:101) at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:381) at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:641) at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:576) at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:554) at com.atlassian.gadgets.renderer.internal.http.HttpClientFetcher.fetch(HttpClientFetcher.java:107) at org.apache.shindig.gadgets.DefaultGadgetSpecFactory.fetchObjectAndCache(DefaultGadgetSpecFactory.java:125) at org.apache.shindig.gadgets.DefaultGadgetSpecFactory.getGadgetSpec(DefaultGadgetSpecFactory.java:90) at com.atlassian.gadgets.renderer.internal.local.LocalGadgetSpecFactory.getGadgetSpec(LocalGadgetSpecFactory.java:82) at com.atlassian.gadgets.renderer.internal.local.LocalGadgetSpecFactory.getGadgetSpec(LocalGadgetSpecFactory.java:64) at com.atlassian.gadgets.renderer.internal.GadgetSpecFactoryImpl.getGadgetSpec(GadgetSpecFactoryImpl.java:132) at com.atlassian.gadgets.renderer.internal.GadgetSpecFactoryImpl.getGadgetSpec(GadgetSpecFactoryImpl.java:78)

Diagnosis

The stack trace is referring to a gadget. Navigate to http://<confluence_url>/admin/viewgadgetdirectory.action and check if there are any existing gadget feed URLs that refer to the domain:

hanis.atlassian.net

as seen in the above stack trace.

Cause

There is an existing gadget feed URL that is referring to a different URL than your configured base URL (which is configured in Confluence Admin > General Configuration).

Solution

Resolution

Remove the gadget feed url and the problem is resolved.

Updated on April 2, 2025

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