Re: IP ranges from The Planet will be blocked

2009-01-06 Thread Randal Hicks
HEAR HERE! ...spot on Dharmesh. Abuse issues of any kind are handled at an ISP level. If the ISP is uncooperative you block that range as it's the ISP's responsibility to manage their subscribers (which is why large chunks of China, Russia, and the Ukraine have found their way into my

Re: IP ranges from The Planet will be blocked

2009-01-06 Thread Mike Scott
Oh no, I commend Twitter as well. I was talking about the planet. Twitter is not a corporate... not yet at least. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Randal Hicks rhick...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: HEAR HERE! ...spot on Dharmesh. Abuse issues of any kind are handled at an ISP level. If the ISP

Re: Displaying public user data / tweet this buttons only when user is authenticated - popup issues

2009-01-06 Thread Chris Heilmann
I find this to be particularly concerning from a privacy point of view. You can retrieve enough information about a user to even replicate their home page. This could be particularly damaging from a phishing point of view. Not only can I spoof the Twitter home page, I can now spoof the

Re: Query whether or not notifications are enabled on a particular friend

2009-01-06 Thread @warrenm
Yeah, again with the nomenclature. I don't want to know if the other account is following me; I want to know whether or not my device is receiving their updates (i.e., via SMS). In my previous post, where I said friend, I meant what's commonly called a follower and where I said follower I meant

Re: IP ranges from The Planet will be blocked

2009-01-06 Thread Chris Scott
On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:47 AM, Randal Hicks wrote: HEAR HERE! ...spot on Dharmesh. Abuse issues of any kind are handled at an ISP level. If the ISP is uncooperative you block that range as it's the ISP's responsibility to manage their subscribers (which is why large chunks of China,

Re: IP ranges from The Planet will be blocked

2009-01-06 Thread jstrellner
I commend you guys on this. We've had servers with them for years (all the way back to when they were still primarily an ISP - Everyone's Internet), during that time they went to complete crap. About 6 months ago I canceled all of our servers there because how crappy of a provider they are (no

Re: Expect Header Issue for .NET developers

2009-01-06 Thread Maxfield Pool
Try moving your System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false higher in your method before you create your WebRequest object, that should help. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Vivek vivek.shrivas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We are getting same (417) error back in our website.

Re: Source of Direct Messages

2009-01-06 Thread fastest963
Apps should get an API-key or something and then if they wanted their source name included then they would have to use their API-key and it would do a lookup key - name from there? That would only apply for apps that want their name as the source. Also, if that could be implemented, an optional,

@oauth_now

2009-01-06 Thread Nicole Simon
I thought some of you might be interested: http://pleasetwitterimplementoauthnow.com/ Please follow the user @oauth_now http://twitter.com/oauth_now to show your support for a better, more secure Twitter! Once you follow @oauth_nowhttp://twitter.com/oauth_nowyou will get exactly two direct

Re: Twitter Authentication

2009-01-06 Thread paradigm.webmas...@gmail.com
Is there any well-known tutorial to perform a setup as listed above. That would be very helpful. Thanks! On Jan 2, 5:55 pm, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: I am trying to create a web-based Twitter app that will print out a friend's timeline, but the Twitter API asks for

Re: @oauth_now

2009-01-06 Thread Bruce Wang
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Nicole Simon nee...@gmail.com wrote: I thought some of you might be interested: http://pleasetwitterimplementoauthnow.com/ Please follow the user @oauth_now http://twitter.com/oauth_now to show your support for a better, more secure Twitter! Once you follow

Re: Query whether or not notifications are enabled on a particular friend

2009-01-06 Thread dougw
Ok, we're on the same page now. If someone doesn't respond by the end of the day, I'll look and see what I can find for you when I'm not at work. Cheers. On Jan 6, 3:07 am, @warrenm wcm...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, again with the nomenclature.  I don't want to know if the other account is

Re: IP ranges from The Planet will be blocked

2009-01-06 Thread zbowling
Is block at a routing level that you or is it going to be an API level? What I'm wondering is if read only access to my updates will still work. I have features of my various blogs that update to twitter but more importantly they show my twitter status. Also a few of my development tools I've

Re: @oauth_now

2009-01-06 Thread Cameron Kaiser
OAuth now! Because clearly Twitter doesn't recognize they need OAuth? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire

Re: Displaying public user data / tweet this buttons only when user is authenticated - popup issues

2009-01-06 Thread Chad Etzel
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Chris Heilmann chris.heilm...@gmail.com wrote: It is more troubling if people don't log out at the end of a session. Paranoia is never a good thing. If you leave things logged in, you are vulnerable. Are you suggesting that I continually sign in/out of my

Re: Displaying public user data / tweet this buttons only when user is authenticated - popup issues

2009-01-06 Thread Nicole Simon
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: I could send a tweet from some account that says @user hello! thanks for dropping by mysite.com! Hope you enjoyed it! How many people *wouldn't* be freaked out by that? (In fact, I should try that and see what kind of

Changing profile image via PHP/Curl

2009-01-06 Thread James N. Weber
I'm trying to develop a web site form that allows you to choose a profile picture, enter your usernamepassword, and then it will change your profile pic to the selected one. I haven't implemented the choosing of the picture yet, as I'm still trying to get one picture to go through. I keep getting

Re: Changing profile image via PHP/Curl

2009-01-06 Thread Chad Etzel
It looks like you are submitting the actual string http://up.jamesnweber.com/Whe.jpg; as the value of $image, whereas I believe you need to actually send the image file data (i.e. the binary image data) in the request instead. I have not done this before, so I am not sure about what encoding to

Re: Changing profile image via PHP/Curl

2009-01-06 Thread Chad Etzel
Ah, my fault, I misread that line of code... it does look like you are setting CULROPT_FILENAME, but I don't think that does what you are wanting it to do from reading http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php -Chad On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com

Re: IP ranges from The Planet will be blocked

2009-01-06 Thread Alex Payne
I've put our operations staff in touch with someone from The Planet. We'll see what happens! On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 08:35, KHazard khaz...@gmail.com wrote: After coming across this thread, I've been investigating the abuse reports on The Planet's side. We located a complaint sent yesterday

Timeline Delays

2009-01-06 Thread Alex Payne
Following the MacWorld keynote, we're seeing some delays in timelines. We're working to resolve those delays, and new tweets should start showing up via the API shortly. According to our monitoring, we've been available during the entire event, but deliveries are running behind. Thanks for your

Re: Changing profile image via PHP/Curl

2009-01-06 Thread Stuart
2009/1/6 James N. Weber jame...@gmail.com: Thanks for the help, Chad. I think I need the PHP equivalent of -F in curl- I'm not sure how to set that. I tried changing it to CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, and Twitter gave me a Something is technically wrong. page- the robot lobster with a broken claw.

Why escaped slashes in JSON?

2009-01-06 Thread Chris Thompson
If I grab the JSON that's returned by the /users/show method, all forward slashes in URLs are escaped. For example, the profile_image_url for my net_twitter id returns: http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/twitter_production\/profile_images\/ 29624212\/ I originally found this when I noticed that

Re: Changing profile image via PHP/Curl

2009-01-06 Thread Chad Etzel
So after some fiddling with your code, I got it to work: I think part of the problem was that you can't use URLs to the image (like you were doing). Anyway, the following code (see pastebin link) gives examples of how to do it with File Uploading through a form, or just using canned local

Re: Changing profile image via PHP/Curl

2009-01-06 Thread James N. Weber
Here is my curlopt's- curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:')); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);

Re: Changing profile image via PHP/Curl

2009-01-06 Thread James N. Weber
Chad- Thanks for all your help with this! I downloaded it from pastebin, and then uploaded it to my server, no changes. It is giving me the There was a problem with your picture. Probably too big. error still, with several photos. Any ideas what's going on? On Jan 6, 1:31 pm, Chad Etzel

Re: 404 with Twitter Search API and since_id

2009-01-06 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi Jan, The search system requires the since_id to be a status ID in the search database. That requirement allows us to lookup the date on the status in question and perform some crucial optimizations. In the case of 1066081654 that status is not in the search database so it throws a

friendship began where

2009-01-06 Thread vonnegut_fan
Are there any plans to include the origin of a friendship in query results? For example I go onto http://twitter.com/al3x and see he is following http://twitter.com/southwestair and I click follow on southwestair, will there be a record of that transaction?

Re: friendship began where

2009-01-06 Thread Alex Payne
I'm sorry, I don't understand your question. What do you mean by the origin of the friendship? On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 14:07, vonnegut_fan petermden...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any plans to include the origin of a friendship in query results? For example I go onto http://twitter.com/al3x and

Re: friendship began where

2009-01-06 Thread Peter Denton
yeah, that was vague, sorry. Basically, could you construct a query that would tell you User A began following User B from User C's profile. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: I'm sorry, I don't understand your question. What do you mean by the origin of the

Re: Twitter Users Pictures

2009-01-06 Thread Patrick Minton
Yes, but once you have the url, why store the actual .png locally? Sure, if a user changes their profile image you may have a broken link, but you can update profile info every hour or so, thus making it a non-issue. On Jan 5, 2009, at 12:34 PM, Peter Denton wrote: I am storing the

Re: Twitter Users Pictures

2009-01-06 Thread Peter Denton
I didn't suggest storing the physical image locally. I stated store the URL in a field in the DB to reference. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Patrick Minton patr...@lexblog.com wrote: Yes, but once you have the url, why store the actual .png locally? Sure, if a user changes their profile

Re: Displaying public user data / tweet this buttons only when user is authenticated - popup issues

2009-01-06 Thread Damon C
On Jan 6, 12:20 am, Chris Heilmann chris.heilm...@gmail.com wrote: I find this to be particularly concerning from a privacy point of view. You can retrieve enough information about a user to even replicate their home page. This could be particularly damaging from a phishing point of

Re: Displaying public user data / tweet this buttons only when user is authenticated - popup issues

2009-01-06 Thread Chad Etzel
Well and generously spoken, Damon. I coded up a proof-of-concept site for this leak today. It works so well it's scary. I am now quite hesitant to release the address publicly because of the backlash I might receive for deceiving people by sending them there. I may be willing to share it with

Re: Displaying public user data / tweet this buttons only when user is authenticated - popup issues

2009-01-06 Thread Dale Merrick
Chad, I would very much like to see your proof of concept. Dale On Jan 6, 2009, at 11:15 PM, Chad Etzel wrote: Well and generously spoken, Damon. I coded up a proof-of-concept site for this leak today. It works so well it's scary. I am now quite hesitant to release the address publicly

Re: Displaying public user data / tweet this buttons only when user is authenticated - popup issues

2009-01-06 Thread Alex Payne
I intend to address this shortly. It's not the API's intended behavior. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 21:15, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Well and generously spoken, Damon. I coded up a proof-of-concept site for this leak today. It works so well it's scary. I am now quite hesitant to