Your basic auth value should be in a header not the post body. The other X- values I think also go into headers, but I don't provide those really so not sure. I'm not even sure if twitter pays attention to those.
Josh On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Prometheus3k <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > I'm using a desktop platform with a Lua scripting environment. The app > I'm making is standalone and does not run in a browser. It can connect > to http resources. > I'm trying out a simple test to update a status but web services isn't > a strong point of mine. > > I'm following Basic Auth for now and looking to implement OAuth later. > The problem I'm having seems to be waiting for the xml response from > https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml > > I've url encoded my status message and am requesting a https resource > similar to > "https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status="; .. url_encoded_msg > > I've created post data object setting type to "application/x-www-form- > urlencoded" and added the following key/values to the post data > Postdata.addValue("X-Twitter-Client", "me") > Postdata.addValue("X-Twitter-Client-Version", "1.0" ) > Postdata.addValue("X-Twitter-Client-URL", "www.my_url.com") > and finally > Postdata.addValue( "Authorization", authValue) > > where authValue is the string "Basic " .. Base64.Encode > (username:password) > > I then send this off to twitter url > "https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status="; .. url_encoded_msg > with the postdata. > > However my code ends up in a loop waiting for the xml response and > eventually timing out. I'd like to know if I've got the right steps > and values for PostData. > > thanks >
