Summary: When I try to add someone to a list using 'curl' with --netrc it is failing, but if I use "-u username:password" it works.
Of course the first thought is that ~/.netrc isn't setup right (although it's been working fine for months). But I double checked that it is. Watch: 1) Verify that my information in ~/.netrc is valid and accessible: # curl --location --referer ";auto" -D - -s --netrc http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:41:13 GMT {edited} 2) verify AGAIN that netrc is working # curl --location --referer ";auto" -D - -s --netrc http://twitter.com/blocks/blocking.xml HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:44:19 GMT Server: hi X-RateLimit-Limit: 20000 {edited} 3) Try to add someone to list "new-followers" # curl --location --referer ";auto" -D - -s --netrc -d "id=25148966" http://api.twitter.com/1/tj/new-followers/members.xml HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:45:34 GMT Server: hi Status: 401 Unauthorized WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Twitter API" X-Runtime: 0.00164 Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 152 Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=1800 Set-Cookie: _twitter_sess=BAh7BzoHaWQiJTgwMDhmYWMwNDU4ODkxNmIzODFhZjJmMTY4ZTU3YzkwIgpm%250AbGFzaElDOidBY3Rpb25Db250cm9sbGVyOjpGbGFzaDo6Rmxhc2hIYXNoewAG%250AOgpAdXNlZHsA--e8bdf83c0b67e77b39c841d940153e181af893a3; domain=.twitter.com; path=/ Expires: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:15:34 GMT Vary: Accept-Encoding Connection: close <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <hash> <request>/1/tj/new-followers/members.xml</request> <error>Could not authenticate you.</error> </hash> This happens every time. 4) Try same command, but using -u instead of --netrc (password *****-ed out in email) # curl --location --referer ";auto" -D - -s -u tj:********** -d "id=25148966" http://api.twitter.com/1/tj/new-followers/members.xml HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:46:10 GMT Server: hi X-Transaction: 1260132370-28062-8379 Status: 200 OK I have no idea why this might not be working. Can anyone hazard a guess? TjL
