[twitter-dev] Re: VB.net auh failure [403]
Yes. What's interesting about this is that my authentication function works for getting and posting updates on my personal timeline. On Apr 6, 12:39 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: What message accompanied the 403 response code? Doug Williams Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:12 AM, DIENECES bowling.j...@gmail.com wrote: That's a great suggestion. Thanks for the help. Ill post my modified code in case anyone else wants some VB (even though it seems to be the black-sheep) of the twitter development family ;). On Apr 5, 12:21 am, James Deville james.devi...@gmail.com wrote: Look at what requests you are sending with Netmon or Wireshark. With Witty (C# wpf app), we discovered that first an unauthenticated request is sent to find out what auth the server takes, then a authenticated request after that. This doesn't work on some of the API requests. The solution is to manually attach the BasicAuth header. JD On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:38 AM, DIENECES bowling.j...@gmail.com wrote: Any idea why I'm forbidden? Thanks in advance! Function writeMessage(ByVal StrPass, ByVal StrUser, ByVal StrMessage, ByVal StrTo) As String Dim req As System.Net.HttpWebRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(http://twitter.com/direct_messages/ new.xml?user= http://twitter.com/direct_messages/%0Anew.xml?user= + StrTo + text= + StrMessage) If Not StrUser = Or StrPass = Then req.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential (StrUser, StrPass) req.Method = POST 'req.ContentLength = 0 'req.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = False req.ContentType = application/x-www-form-urlencoded 'req.PreAuthenticate = True Dim resp As HttpWebResponse = req.GetResponse() Dim sr As New System.IO.StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream ()) 'sr.Read(req.GetResponse(), ) Return sr.ReadToEnd() End If End Function- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
[twitter-dev] Re: VB.net auh failure [403]
That's a great suggestion. Thanks for the help. Ill post my modified code in case anyone else wants some VB (even though it seems to be the black-sheep) of the twitter development family ;). On Apr 5, 12:21 am, James Deville james.devi...@gmail.com wrote: Look at what requests you are sending with Netmon or Wireshark. With Witty (C# wpf app), we discovered that first an unauthenticated request is sent to find out what auth the server takes, then a authenticated request after that. This doesn't work on some of the API requests. The solution is to manually attach the BasicAuth header. JD On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:38 AM, DIENECES bowling.j...@gmail.com wrote: Any idea why I'm forbidden? Thanks in advance! Function writeMessage(ByVal StrPass, ByVal StrUser, ByVal StrMessage, ByVal StrTo) As String Dim req As System.Net.HttpWebRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(http://twitter.com/direct_messages/ new.xml?user= http://twitter.com/direct_messages/%0Anew.xml?user= + StrTo + text= + StrMessage) If Not StrUser = Or StrPass = Then req.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential (StrUser, StrPass) req.Method = POST 'req.ContentLength = 0 'req.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = False req.ContentType = application/x-www-form-urlencoded 'req.PreAuthenticate = True Dim resp As HttpWebResponse = req.GetResponse() Dim sr As New System.IO.StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream ()) 'sr.Read(req.GetResponse(), ) Return sr.ReadToEnd() End If End Function- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
[twitter-dev] VB.net auh failure [403]
Any idea why I'm forbidden? Thanks in advance! Function writeMessage(ByVal StrPass, ByVal StrUser, ByVal StrMessage, ByVal StrTo) As String Dim req As System.Net.HttpWebRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(http://twitter.com/direct_messages/ new.xml?user= + StrTo + text= + StrMessage) If Not StrUser = Or StrPass = Then req.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential (StrUser, StrPass) req.Method = POST 'req.ContentLength = 0 'req.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = False req.ContentType = application/x-www-form-urlencoded 'req.PreAuthenticate = True Dim resp As HttpWebResponse = req.GetResponse() Dim sr As New System.IO.StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream ()) 'sr.Read(req.GetResponse(), ) Return sr.ReadToEnd() End If End Function
