Well, looks like my email manged the command before it sent and took out the space before the url, though I'm sure you figured that out:
curl -u username:password -d "status=hello&source=tweetgrid" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json What shell are you using? Yes, as Stuart mentioned you must use quotes as above for your shell to not do something funky. -Chad On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Stuart <stut...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2009/2/11 SamSoftware <bcn.r...@gmail.com>: >> >> On Feb 11, 10:27 am, Chad Etzel <jazzyc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Here is the exact command (minus username and password) that I just >>> tried, and it worked fine. You can try using the source of tweetgrid >>> for testing purposes if you want, since it is registered and is >>> working. >>> >>> curl -u username:password -d >>> "status=hello&source=tweetgrid"http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json >>> >>> Are you sure your source key has been registered and activated? >>> >>> -Chad >> >> I do have an active source key, hmmmm, this will be interesting >> because the way i am doing the curl command, it does not like the & >> symbol too much. Thanks though. > > You must use quotes as per the example above. If not then the shell > will interpret the & rather than passing it to curl as part of an > argument. > > -Stuart > > -- > http://stut.net/ >
