Django 1.10.5 / Azure error when connecting

[homepods]

Dear all,

I get this error when using this configuration - what this really means?

Server failed to authenticate the request. Make sure the value of Authorization header is formed correctly including the signature

File "xxxxxxxxxxxx\env\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\staticfiles\management\commands\collectstatic.py", line 255, in delete_file
    if self.storage.exists(prefixed_path):
  File "xxxxxxxxxxxx\storage.py", line 151, in exists 
File "xxxxxxxxxxxx\storage.py", line 70, in _get_properties
    blob_name=name
  File "xxxxxxxxxxxx\env\lib\site-packages\azure\storage\blob\baseblobservice.py", line 1440, in get_blob_properties
    return self._perform_request(request, _parse_blob, [blob_name, snapshot])
  File "xxxxxxxxxxxx\env\lib\site-packages\azure\storage\storageclient.py", line 266, in _perform_request
    raise ex
  File "xxxxxxxxxxxx\env\lib\site-packages\azure\storage\storageclient.py", line 238, in _perform_request
    raise ex
  File "xxxxxxxxxxxx\env\lib\site-packages\azure\storage\storageclient.py", line 225, in _perform_request
    _http_error_handler(HTTPError(response.status, response.message, response.headers, response.body))
  File "xxxxxxxxxxxx\env\lib\site-packages\azure\storage\_error.py", line 98, in _http_error_handler
    raise AzureHttpError(message, http_error.status)
azure.common.AzureHttpError: Server failed to authenticate the request. Make sure the value of Authorization header is formed correctly including the signature.

[kevin-brown]

Server failed to authenticate the request. Make sure the value of Authorization header is formed correctly including the signature

This usually means one of four things:

• You can't connect to Azure (DNS issues, usually) - For some reason the Azure package doesn't always detect this
• You connected to Azure, but your machine couldn't validate their certificate - This happens a lot in cases where your machine's certificates are out of date, but is less common
• You connected to Azure, and Azure rejected your authentication credentials because they were incorrect - This usually means your ACCOUNT_KEY is incorrect
• You connected to Azure, and Azure rejected your signature because it was out of date - This usually means that your system clock has drifted by more than a few minutes and needs to be corrected

Unfortunately this is their generic "AuthenticationFailed" error message which usually has a "AuthenticationErrorDetail" that includes more detail, but the Azure package does not include it.

[homepods]

and if you had such an error, how would you fix it?

[kevin-brown]

Usually fixing the issue would require knowing what the issue is, as they tend to have very different fixes.

• Check if you can ping blob.core.windows.net - If not, check if you can do it from another machine on the network
• Check if you can open the URL in Python using urlopen or requests - If not, it should give you a useful error message
• Copy/paste your account key from Azure to make sure you didn't have an issue before
• Check the date reported by your machine, see if it looks wrong. If you need a guess as to what time it should be saying, ask Google what time is it?

[homepods]

raise AzureHttpError(message, http_error.status)
azure.common.AzureHttpError: The value for one of the HTTP headers is not in the correct format.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Error><Code>InvalidHeaderValue</Code><Message>The value for one of the HTTP headers is not in the correct format.
RequestId:dbafa875-0001-0061-54a1-6a6a83000000
Time:2017-01-09T17:51:38.4357963Z</Message><HeaderName>x-ms-blob-type</HeaderName><HeaderValue>Blob</HeaderValue></Error>`

What is this suppose to mean?