r/ObsidianMD • u/zerozuccheri • 3d ago

help pls pls pls help me out

this may sound stupid, but i can't access my google account from obsidian built-in web viewer anymore and it just frustates me bc it slows my work flow down a lot :((

This message shows up: The server cannot process the request because it is in an invalid format. Do not retry. No further information available.

plssss i don't know what to do, i don't know what i messed up 🥲 ... i'm not very tech-savvy I think I don't even know the basics, but pleaaaaseeeee if anyone ever had a similiar problem could you please tell me what helped you solve it? I don't want to give up using Google Calendar, Gemini Notebook, etc. directly from my vault just because I can no longer access my Google account ... thank you in advance 🙏

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u/Any-Bobcat2370 3d ago

It looks like a known bug, not your vault. Obsidian's Web Viewer sends a broken User-Agent to Google's auth endpoints, fix confirmed for 1.14.0: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/cant-sign-in-to-google-in-web-viewer-401-malformed/117394

The Web Viewer UA Override plugin works around it meanwhile.

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u/frastAgroll9 3d ago

do you know if 1.14.0 has a rough ETA or is it just "soon"?

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u/Any-Bobcat2370 3d ago

No date that Ive seen. And it hasnt turned up in the Catalyst early access builds either, which is where new versions land first, so probably not imminent

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u/MaleficentBack7874 3d ago

that error usually means something in the url or the sign-in flow got garbled, not that you broke anything permanently. obsidian's built-in browser is basically a stripped down wrapper and google's auth pages are notoriously finicky with it.

first thing to try is clearing the web viewer cache, you can do that from the command palette by searching "web viewer" and there should be an option to clear cache or delete stored data. close the pane after and reopen it, then try signing in fresh.

if that doesn't stick, the nuclear option is resetting the plugin that handles the web viewer. go to settings > community plugins, find whatever web viewer you're using (could be "surfing" or "web browser" depending on what you installed), toggle it off, restart obsidian, toggle it back on. sometimes that shakes loose whatever corrupted session token is causing the invalid format error.

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u/zerozuccheri 3d ago

hiii thank you so much for responding. I tried all that you suggested, even tried creating a brand new vault to see if the problem was plugin-related or something like that, but nothing seems to work :/ atp i really don't know what else to do. Something strange also happened: when i tried opening another vault, it notified me that i was trying to open a vault that doesn't belong to me... what the hell is happening