>From looking at the archives of this group, uploading images to Twitter seems to be a common source of problems. I've found a couple of posts describing the exact same problem I have, but without resolution. (e.g. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/6f1e68dabd00e6dd/a1b4998519642350?lnk=gst&q=update_profile_image#a1b4998519642350 and http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/df48afe3ff0a61b7/30b6b8ae158209c6?lnk=gst&q=update_profile_image#30b6b8ae158209c6 for example). So here is another attempt, with a dump of the wire traffic in case anyone can spot the problem.
My request: ******************************* POST /1/account/update_profile_image.xml HTTP/1.1 Accept-Encoding: identity Content-Length: 118492 Host: api.twitter.com:80 User-Agent: Python-urllib/2.6 Connection: close Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=670d0073732c41d9a8023cc1ff8f563b Authorization: Basic (...) --670d0073732c41d9a8023cc1ff8f563b Content-Disposition: form-data; name="image"; filename="test.jpg" Content-Type: image/jpeg Content-Length: 118295 <file content> --670d0073732c41d9a8023cc1ff8f563b-- ******************************* The response I get: ******************************* HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:11:51 GMT Server: hi Status: 500 Internal Server Error Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Cache-Control: max-age=300 Expires: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:16:51 GMT Vary: Accept-Encoding Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked f4 Status: 500 Internal Server Error Content-Type: text/html <html><body><h1>500 Internal Server Error</h1></body></html>Status: 500 Internal Server Error Content-Type: text/html <html><body><h1>500 Internal Server Error</h1></body></html> 0 ******************************* It's not a copy/paste error, the body (and a couple of HTTP headers) appear twice. Go figure. I can't see the pb w/ the headers and how the response is structured. My guess is that there might be something about the images themselves and the way they're encoded. But I've tried several of them (JPG, PNG and GIF) with the same result. They are all reasonably sized and work just fine it I upload them directly via the Web interface. As you can tell from the user agent in the dump above, my code is in Python 2.6, with the help of the Poster (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ poster/0.5) library to do the multi-part stuff. But I am not asking for Python assistance, more on-the-wire compatibility assistance. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
