Exception: The session id is not in a valid format. (4001)

[kjintar]

I'm not sure if this is an error from the client or an error from the netcup API, but as I'm trying to request a new certificate I get the following error:

Exiting abnormally:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/snap/certbot/3643/bin/certbot", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/snap/certbot/3643/lib/python3.8/site-packages/certbot/main.py", line 19, in main
    return internal_main.main(cli_args)
  File "/snap/certbot/3643/lib/python3.8/site-packages/certbot/_internal/main.py", line 1894, in main
    return config.func(config, plugins)
  File "/snap/certbot/3643/lib/python3.8/site-packages/certbot/_internal/main.py", line 1600, in certonly
    lineage = _get_and_save_cert(le_client, config, domains, certname, lineage)
  File "/snap/certbot/3643/lib/python3.8/site-packages/certbot/_internal/main.py", line 143, in _get_and_save_cert
    lineage = le_client.obtain_and_enroll_certificate(domains, certname)
  File "/snap/certbot/3643/lib/python3.8/site-packages/certbot/_internal/client.py", line 517, in obtain_and_enroll_certificate
    cert, chain, key, _ = self.obtain_certificate(domains)
  File "/snap/certbot/3643/lib/python3.8/site-packages/certbot/_internal/client.py", line 428, in obtain_certificate
    orderr = self._get_order_and_authorizations(csr.data, self.config.allow_subset_of_names)
  File "/snap/certbot/3643/lib/python3.8/site-packages/certbot/_internal/client.py", line 496, in _get_order_and_authorizations
    authzr = self.auth_handler.handle_authorizations(orderr, self.config, best_effort)
  File "/snap/certbot/3643/lib/python3.8/site-packages/certbot/_internal/auth_handler.py", line 88, in handle_authorizations
    resps = self.auth.perform(achalls)
  File "/snap/certbot/3643/lib/python3.8/site-packages/certbot/plugins/dns_common.py", line 76, in perform
    self._perform(domain, validation_domain_name, validation)
  File "/snap/certbot-dns-netcup/current/lib/python3.8/site-packages/certbot_dns_netcup.py", line 69, in _perform
    self._get_netcup_client().add_txt_record(
  File "/snap/certbot/3643/lib/python3.8/site-packages/certbot/plugins/dns_common_lexicon.py", line 63, in add_txt_record
    self.provider.create_record(rtype='TXT', name=record_name, content=record_content)
  File "/snap/certbot-dns-netcup/current/lib/python3.8/site-packages/lexicon/_private/providers/netcup.py", line 60, in create_record
    self._update_records(
  File "/snap/certbot-dns-netcup/current/lib/python3.8/site-packages/lexicon/_private/providers/netcup.py", line 151, in _update_records
    return self._apicall(
  File "/snap/certbot-dns-netcup/current/lib/python3.8/site-packages/lexicon/_private/providers/netcup.py", line 175, in _apicall
    raise Exception(f"{data['longmessage']} ({data['statuscode']})")
Exception: The session id is not in a valid format. (4001)
An unexpected error occurred:
Exception: The session id is not in a valid format. (4001)

This is taken from the API-Log:

[coldfix]

Hi,

thanks for the report. I haven't seen this so far. Does this also occur with the docker version?
I'm rather busy this week. If I don't get back to you, ping me again.

Best, Thomas

[nsiepmann]

I didn't test the docker version. I'm a bit old school I assume.

However, the issue seems to be resolved and it was either related to an issue on netcups end or related to a malfunctioning IPv6 link on my server, although I wonder why that would result in this error.

[coldfix]

Ok, thank you for the update. In this case I'll close because, although it'd be nice to have a better error message for this case, it will be hard to reproduce and improve.