So it must be based on the IP Address and the UserAgent... I have changed the UserAgent, so it works now, but I don't particularly like this solution. It would be nice to know what happened, and what caused it, so I can try to prevent it from happening in the future.
On Dec 14, 11:24 am, Tom van der Woerdt <i...@tvdw.eu> wrote: > Tested it myself with : > tom-mbp:~ tom$ curl --user-agent "PivotalVeracity/0.4" > "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=batteryoperatedcandles.net&rp..." > > Result : > {"results":[],"max_id":14696108638863361,"since_id":9431322892177408,"refresh_url":"?since_id=14696108638863361&q=batteryoperatedcandles.net","results_per_page":100,"page":1,"completed_in":0.006856,"since_id_str":"9431322892177408","max_id_str":"14696108638863361","query":"batteryoperatedcandles.net"} > > Seems to work fine... Getting exactly the same results when using the > default User Agent. > > Tom > > On 12/14/10 5:15 PM, Brian Medendorp wrote: > > > UserAgent is 'PivotalVeracity/0.4' > > > Here's the test script that helped me track down the problem: > > > [code] > > <?php > > > $timeout = 30; > > $useragent = 'PivotalVeracity/0.4'; > > #$useragent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv: > > 1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13'; > > > $url = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json? > > q=batteryoperatedcandles.net&rpp=100&since_id=9431322892177408&since=&until='; > > #$url = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json? > > q=carnationbreakfastessentials.com&rpp=100&since_id=&since=2010-12-14&until='; > > #$url = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json? > > q=apple.com&rpp=100&since_id=&since=2010-12-14&until='; > > > $ch = curl_init($url); > > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); > > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent); > > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout); > > $content = curl_exec($ch); > > if(curl_errno($ch)) > > { > > print "curl error: ".curl_error($ch)."\n"; > > print_r(curl_getinfo($ch)); > > } > > print_r($content); > > [/code] > > > On Dec 14, 11:03 am, Tom van der Woerdt<i...@tvdw.eu> wrote: > >> And your UserAgent is? > > >> Tom > > >> On 12/14/10 5:02 PM, Brian Medendorp wrote: > > >>> I'm building an application that uses the search API to check for data > >>> related to particular domains, and suddenly (within the last week or > >>> so), I have started to experience a strange problem. Some of my > >>> requests are coming back with a cURL error "Empty reply from server", > >>> but only when I am searching for a specific set of domains (all of the > >>> other domains work fine). > > >>> I wrote a small test script to try and track down the problem, and it > >>> seems that the UserAgent I am setting with cURL seems to be causing > >>> the problem (or part of the problem). If I change the UserAgent to > >>> anything else, I get a normal response. > > >>> I remember reading in the documentation that Twitter expects a unique > >>> UserAgent for the application, so that's what I did, but that seems to > >>> be causing problems. This seems like it's likely some sort of > >>> blacklist problem, but I can't figure out why it would work in this > >>> manner (only blocking a small subset of my queries, and not IP-based). > > >>> Here are some sample queries I am trying to cURL: > > >>>http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=batteryoperatedcandles.net&rp... > >>>http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=carnationbreakfastessentials.... > >>>http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=apple.com&rpp=100&since_id=&s... > > >>> The first two don't work unless I change my UserAgent to something > >>> else, but the last one works no matter what. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk