Do you perhaps have HTTPS only enabled in your profile while you make
requests from your browser?

I found that the following request redirected in Chrome when I was logged
into twitter.com but it didn't in an incognito window.

http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show/abraham.json

Abraham
-------------
Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate | abrah.am
 <http://abrah.am>Just launched from Answerly <http://answerly.com>:
InboxQ<http://inboxq.com>for Chrome
@abraham <https://twitter.com/abraham> | github.com/abraham | blog.abrah.am
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On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 16:25, DustyReagan <dustyrea...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I just noticed via Charles proxy that http://api.twitter.com Rest API
> calls are redirected to httpS://api.twitter.com. Is this the correct
> and permanent behavior?
>
> If so, a lot of unnecessary redirects could be trimmed if API
> developers knew to only request the HTTPS endpoint. I noticed in the
> developer documentation, the standard HTTP url is still used.
>
> Should we be using HTTPS?
>
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