i am sure that both are being rendered with auth.
On Jan 20, 6:30 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you perhaps making authenticated calls to the API but > calling account/rate_limit_status unauthenticated? or vis versa? > > Abraham > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 13:55, mlecho <saltlessbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > hi. i am building an api for a project, and a portion implements > > twitter. Cakephp is my framework. The problem i am having is despite > > my approach, i am getting > > > {"request":"\/statuses\/user_timeline.xml? > > screen_name=user_screen_name_example","error":"Rate limit exceeded. > > Clients may not make more than 150 requests per hour."} > > > However, if i query the twitter api to see how many requests i truly > > have left, i am no where near 150. I have in my controller var > > $cacheAction = "1800"; and i am using the Cache helper so as to limt > > the hits on the request... > > > [[ the approaches]] > > The first attempt was to use the Twittersource from the bakery(http:// > > bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/twitter-datasource). > > > The second approach was to curl the results through a custom method. > > function _getCurrentTweets($user = NULL) > > { > > > $tw = curl_init(); > > curl_setopt($tw, CURLOPT_GET, 1); > > if (!$user) { > > curl_setopt($tw, CURLOPT_URL, > > $this->Tweet->tweets);// ie: > >http://twitter.com/statuses/friends.xml?my_screen_name=101010 > > curl_setopt($tw, CURLOPT_USERPWD, > > $this->Tweet->login); > > }else > > { > > > $t_url = $this->Tweet->tweetsWithUser.$user; // ie: > >http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=$user > > curl_setopt($tw, CURLOPT_URL, $t_url); > > } > > curl_setopt($tw, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); > > $twi = curl_exec($tw); > > curl_close($tw); > > > $tweeters = new SimpleXMLElement($twi); > > return $tweeters; > > } > > > perhaps there is a bigger picture i am missing? I had thought this was > > a caching issue, but now i am not so sure. > > -- > Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays > Project | Intersect |http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com > Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham > This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. > Sent from Seattle, WA, United States