I was thinking the same thing about the "referrer."  I rushed over to
check on my apps after reading this thread.  I know this has been
broached before, but it sure would be nice to have a beta site for the
devs to test against before changes go live.

On Jun 19, 7:04 am, Doug Williams <d...@twitter.com> wrote:
> Can you include the specific request you are making?
>
> Thanks,
> Doug
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Alan Evans <alanev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just a shot in the dark, but could it be caused by this?:
>
> >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...
>
> > It sounds like exactly the sort of thing that could cause an app to
> > suddenly stop working.  I see that your new code posted above contained a
> > referer, but what about the code that was failing?  How about putting in a
> > User-Agent too, for good measure.
>
> > Regards,
>
> > Alan Evans
>
> > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:50 PM, markanson <mark.an...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Marco it was all working fine for a month or more
>
> >> then today it stopped working
>
> >> My new code that I got from somewhere seems ok but I don't feel really
> >> confident about this
>
> >> I am using this
>
> >> function file_post_contents($url,$headers=false) {
> >>    $url = parse_url($url);
>
> >>    if (!isset($url['port'])) {
> >>      if ($url['scheme'] == 'http') { $url['port']=80; }
> >>      elseif ($url['scheme'] == 'https') { $url['port']=443; }
> >>    }
> >>    $url['query']=isset($url['query'])?$url['query']:'';
>
> >>    $url['protocol']=$url['scheme'].'://';
> >>    $eol="\r\n";
>
> >>    $headers =  "POST ".$url['protocol'].$url['host'].$url['path']."
> >> HTTP/1.0".$eol.
> >>                "Host: ".$url['host'].$eol.
> >>                "Referer: ".$url['protocol'].$url['host'].$url['path'].
> >> $eol.
> >>                "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded".
> >> $eol.
> >>                "Content-Length: ".strlen($url['query']).$eol.
> >>                $eol.$url['query'];
> >>    $fp = fsockopen($url['host'], $url['port'], $errno, $errstr, 30);
> >>    if($fp) {
> >>      fputs($fp, $headers);
> >>      $result = '';
> >>      while(!feof($fp)) { $result .= fgets($fp, 128); }
> >>      fclose($fp);
> >>      if (!$headers) {
> >>        //removes headers
> >>        $pattern="/^.*\r\n\r\n/s";
> >>        $result=preg_replace($pattern,'',$result);
> >>      }
> >>      return $result;
> >>    }
> >> }- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

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