Why The source tree redirects me to the localhost URL?
Asked by Acrologix:

I have saw this bug several times during source tree installation. When the Source tree ask me to login with bitbucket and redirects me to the login page in the browser. After login the source tree redirects me to:

http://localhost:34106/?state=authenticated\&code=ZPHwBxSEsdNypFJ2Vs

Is it not error. I think the source tree developers have not updated this link while going from development into production.

Thanks


Answers:
author: RakeMark
body: **For me the Error is:**

This site can't provide a secure connection  
ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR

**My Solution:**

1. Open an incognito Window  
2. Change HTTPS to HTTP  
3. Refresh page and I'm authenticated

I'm on SourceTree version 3.3.8


author: Casper Nybroe
body: I am seeing the same issue - redirected to localhost and nothing happens from there.  
GJ Atlassian - also GJ with ignoring comments and tickets on this - moving on to another GUI.

comments: author: Sergio
body: Look at my "Solution" above this response. It worked for me.  


author: Sergio
body: I have managed to login uninstalling actual version(SourceTreeSetup-3.1.3) and downloading version 2.1.11.0 (<https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/download-archives>). After login just update and that's all.

comments: author: Rajesh Kumar
body: I have followed this approach and It worked.

Thanks


author: Vlad Crisan
body: Thanks Sergio, it did it for me.

I was unable to login through the webpage cookie or whatever which was trying to connect to localhost:34196...big misshap from Sourcetree devs


author: kos811
body: it works for me too

thank you


author: reshu0408
body: Thanks [@Sergio](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2126879) . You saved my day :)


author: Maxime Lepage
body: The api used by this version don't work anymore


author: Amit K
body: We are having same problem, it redirects to the localhost URL and do nothing. We are using the SourceTreeSetup-3.4.18.exe of the Source Tree. Appreciate if someone could share how to solve this isuse?

comments: author: Maxime Lepage
body: Any solution ?


author: lselden
body: For folks who can't get it to work in any browser - I finally managed to get in by using curl in a Git bash session (curl at windows command prompt still didn't work for some reason, but could be my particular environment):

1. open bash session

2. run curl against your localhost url, replacing https with http, i.e.:

$ curl -v "[http://localhost:PORT/?code=CODE\&state=authenticated](http://localhost:PORT/?code=CODE&state=authenticated)"

FWIW:

\* SourceTree (windows): 3.4.9

\* curl (windows): 7.83.1

\* curl (git bash): 7.73.0

comments: author: Maxime Lepage
body: Doesn't works for me...


author: gilgen-zt
body: I found another question about this topic.

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Sourcetree-questions/Installation-problem-localhost-34106/qaq-p/984572>

[ali kamsari](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3599060) mentioned it could be an issue with chrome as default browser. So I changed temporarily my default browser to Edge and it work for me.

comments: author: derentis
body: Tried Firefox, Chrome and Edge (in that order), then thought perhaps it's not a browser issue so executed netstat -ano \| findstr "34106" and there's nothing listening on that port.  

Hey [@Ana Retamal](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1067288) and Atlassian team, \*there's nothing listening on that port\* so you definitely have a bug.

Perhaps the devs have a different local setup or the production build has a slightly different configuration or something, but whatever component is meant to be listening...isn't.

Steps to reproduce:  
Download latest version (as of 3 August 2020) of SourceTree  
Install  
Try to connect account via OAuth

Log extract:  
ERROR \[2020-08-03 14:18:05,154\] \[1\] \[SourceTree.Exceptions.RemoteHostException\] \[Log\] - Unable to receive callback from OAuth service provider  
ERROR \[2020-08-03 14:18:05,185\] \[1\] \[SourceTree.Exceptions.RemoteHostException\] \[Log\] - Unable to get user secret  
ERROR \[2020-08-03 14:18:05,186\] \[1\] \[SourceTree.Exceptions.RemoteHostException\] \[Log\] - Unable to get secret

Edit:  
Found that even when uninstalling SourceTree, it leaves loads of garbage behind in your AppData folder.  

Resolution:  
Uninstall Sourcetree  
Delete the following folders:  
C:\\Users\\{your username here}\\AppData\\Local\\Atlassian  
C:\\Users\\{your username here}\\AppData\\Local\\SourceTree  
C:\\Users\\{your username here}\\AppData\\Local\\SquirrelTemp  
Reboot (unsure if this helped or not but I rebooted so adding the step)  
Reinstall SourceTree  

Conclusion:  
Atlassian needs to clean up their uninstall process.  
This is likely a scenario that new users won't experience, but more specific to existing users upgrading to newer versions of SourceTree as was my case.


author: Richard Eastes
body: I've just lost a day trying to fix this. Oauth is redirecting to an empty localhost page and then nothing happens in source tree.


author: Richard Eastes
body: And for no apparent reason, it starts working again. I don't even get the satisfaction of knowing what I did to fix it.


author: s_adnan
body: Yes issue still exist in version 3.3.8.

comments: author: gilgen-zt
body: I'm facing the same issue. Got a new notebook to set up.

I cannot install Bitbucket at all. I tried several versions (3.3.8, 3.3.6, 2.6.10 and 2.1.11.0) at the latest when updating to a newer version it all ends up in the above mentioned error.

I'm not able to use Bitbucket at the moment what is a very big problem...


author: Ana Retamal
body: Hi, welcome to the Community!

I've asked the developers about this, and they replied that this is intended. That link is the callback used during OAuth flows, Sourcetree runs a local server to capture the OAuth tokens.

Hope that answers your question!

Ana

comments: author: Anuem
body: But there is no local server running on my system, and the installation cannot proceed. Everytime I click on grant, nothing happens. This is definitely a bug.


author: trucheromayor
body: I?m in the same situation... :(

What to do ???

Thanks!!


author: sk-pro-cloud
body: I seems very paltry that a that such a highly technical team would produce such a naive coding blunder.

Disappointed through out.


author: Seadna Smallwood
body: This bug is happening for me too. I get this error:

Invalid redirect_uri

This integration is misconfigured. Contact the vendor for assistance.


author: Sergio
body: There is some problem with that local server, i have created several accounts but after succesful login in my browser it's still waiting for login.


author: christianbohm
body: Almost a year has passed and this problem is still there!

I cannot install latest version


author: Antonis Tsimourtos
body: Source tree Version 3.3.8 and problem still exist.


author: jwild_kingsbarn
body: I'm not even using sourcetree, just trying to use the visual studio built in git support and it does this same thing to me... in 2022.


author: KiranKesarkar
body: We are getting the same problem, it redirects to the localhost URL and does nothing. We are using the v3.8.10 of the source tree. Appreciate if someone could share how to solve this isuse ?


author: Miroslav Stefan
body: If you use windows, with Edge browser as default, try change your default browser from win settings, to Chrome.