Thanks Alex. I used curl to see what the request should look like and then coded up my request accordingly. It's working for me now.
On Dec 6, 11:37 am, "Alex Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The test we use for this method is to use curl: > > curl -F '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/to/test/image.jpg' -u > USERNAME:PASSWORDhttp://twitter.com/account/update_profile_image.xml > > If you use an HTTP proxy, you can see it generating the appropriate > request and response. > > > > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 00:09, Lien Tran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I've been trying to update myprofileimageusing the account method > > update_profile_image. However, the server keeps returning the error > > "There was a problem with your picture. Probably too big." The photo > > I am trying to upload is a jpg less than 700 kilobytes in size. Below > > is the request body and request response. > > > Request body: > > POST /account/update_profile_image.xml HTTP/1.1 > > Authorization: Basic <encoded credentials here> > > User-Agent: Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1 > > Host: twitter.com > > Content-Length: 71440 > > Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=tUGDGHg6- > > mbUEjVXYFhFWeb_NFmBUxiXOK > > > --tUGDGHg6-mbUEjVXYFhFWeb_NFmBUxiXOK > > Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Sunset.jpg"; > > filename="Sunset.jpg" > > Content-Type: application/octet-stream; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary > > > <binary data here> > > > --tUGDGHg6-mbUEjVXYFhFWeb_NFmBUxiXOK-- > > > Response body: > > HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden > > Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:59:53 GMT > > Server: hi > > Last-Modified: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:59:53 GMT > > Status: 403 Forbidden > > Pragma: no-cache > > Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post- > > check=0 > > Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8 > > Content-Length: 183 > > Expires: Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMT > > Set-Cookie: > > _twitter_sess=BAh7BzoHaWQiJWRhOWNmNjI1MGM5MjRmYWIwOGEzOGQwNTQyYzNmZTNjIgpm > > %250AbGFzaElDOidBY3Rpb25Db250cm9sbGVyOjpGbGFzaDo6Rmxhc2hIYXNoewAG > > %250AOgpAdXNlZHsA--d9fe4dcadf2064553d3371c9fe767ff009f20c21; > > domain=.twitter.com; path=/ > > Vary: Accept-Encoding > > Connection: close > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > <hash> > > <request>/account/update_profile_image.xml</request> > > <error>There was a problem with your picture. Probably too big.</ > > error> > > </hash> > > > Does the request body look correct? Does anyone have a sample of what > > the request body should look like if this is not correct? > > > Thanks. > > -- > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
