An obvious issue is http://twitter.com/direct_messages/new.format.
"format" should be either "json" or "xml". On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 14:17, Jason <jasonalev...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > As part of a Twitter Application I'm working on, I need to send a > direct message to a user. My code for this is: > > <? > $twitterHost = "http://twitter.com/direct_messages/new.format";; > $postdata = array("user" => $Username, "text" => "MESSAGE I AM > SENDING"); > > $curl = curl_init(); > > curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $twitterHost); > curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); > curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $APIusername . ":" . > $APIpassword); > curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:')); > curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true); > curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata); > > set_time_limit(60); // Keep script from timing out > $APIResult = curl_exec($curl); > > curl_close($curl); > echo $APIResult; > ?> > > $APIusername and $APIpassword are my Twitter Username and Password. > (I've been whitelisted.) The response I get back is: "403 Forbidden: > The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it." > > What could be causing this error and how can I fix it? -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from: Madison Wisconsin United States.
