I have a draft written, I'm going to compile and debug tonight. I'll
post my code and/or dll when I'm finished.

On Apr 8, 7:09 am, Dimebrain <[email protected]> wrote:
> I confirmed this is still happening by tracing with wireshark last
> night; so my expectation for preauthenticate was wrong as it doesn't
> stop the initial grab for authentication flavor; setting the header
> yourself does the trick for that first call.
>
> On Apr 8, 2:21 am, James Deville <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Almost. request.PreAuthenticate still sends a double request the first time.
> > Behind corporate firewalls (where multiple clients may be getting aggregated
> > to one IP address), you can still hit the unauth'ed rate limit.
>
> > I'll try tomorrow at work (where I can usually repro the above situation)
> > and report back.
>
> > JD
>
> > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Dimebrain <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Isn't request.PreAuthenticate = true functionally equivalent to adding
> > > the credentials manually to avoid the double calls?
>
> > > On Apr 5, 1:21 am, James Deville <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Look at what requests you are sending with Netmon or Wireshark. With
> > > Witty
> > > > (C# wpf app), we discovered that first an unauthenticated request is 
> > > > sent
> > > to
> > > > find out what auth the server takes, then a authenticated request after
> > > > that. This doesn't work on some of the API requests. The solution is to
> > > > manually attach the BasicAuth header.
>
> > > > JD
>
> > > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:38 AM, DIENECES <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
>
> > > > > Any idea why I'm forbidden?
> > > > > Thanks in advance!
> > > > > Function writeMessage(ByVal StrPass, ByVal StrUser, ByVal StrMessage,
> > > > > ByVal StrTo) As String
> > > > >        Dim req As System.Net.HttpWebRequest =
> > > > > System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create("http://twitter.com/direct_messages/
> > > > > new.xml?user= <http://twitter.com/direct_messages/%0Anew.xml?user=>" +
> > > > > StrTo + "&text=" + StrMessage)
> > > > >        If Not StrUser = "" Or StrPass = "" Then
> > > > >            req.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential
> > > > > (StrUser, StrPass)
> > > > >            req.Method = "POST"
> > > > >            'req.ContentLength = 0
> > > > >            'req.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = False
> > > > >            req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
> > > > >            'req.PreAuthenticate = True
> > > > >            Dim resp As HttpWebResponse = req.GetResponse()
> > > > >            Dim sr As New System.IO.StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream
> > > > > ())
> > > > >            'sr.Read(req.GetResponse(), )
> > > > >            Return sr.ReadToEnd()
> > > > >        End If
>
> > > > >    End Function- Hide quoted text -
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