I think I'm encountering the same hurdle with my application. Unfortunately my hosting provider insists on having an IP to use in order to filter outbound traffic from the server. I don't suppose that there's any chance that you would be able to provide this so that I can get access to the API from an application that needs to integrate twitter?
Thanks. On Apr 15, 8:06 pm, Alex Payne <a...@twitter.com> wrote: > You're probably better off writing the firewall rule by domain, if > possible. OurIPranges are going to change and grow, and they'll be > hard to keep track of. > > > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 15:12, billbarn42 <billbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've got a python script that is monitoring the playlist for our local > > public radio station, and tweeting when new tracks come up. It is > > using @wdav as the twitter ID (although that is not relevant to this > > question...) > > > I am using the twitter.py library to wrap the twitter api. > > > Runs fine on my local laptop, but when I deployed it to my hosted > > server I had to tell them anIPaddress it was posting to so they > > could implement a firewall rule to let the traffic through. I gave > > them 128.121.146.100, since that's what comes back from a ping to > > twitter.com. > > > The problem is that it seems the script is frequently trying to use > > otheripaddresses to reach twitter. Is there a range ofIPaddresses > > that might be valid Twitter endpoints, that I need to pass on to the > > hosted server admin team? > > > Any help greatly appreciated! > > > Bill > > -- > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
