Hi Damon,

We've heard some reports of iPads setting their dates/clocks incorrectly --
sometimes back to 1969. If the client application uses the date/time on the
machine (rather than querying it from some other source), and the date/time
isn't within 5 minutes or so of our clocks, it results in a failed request.
One work around is for clients to adjust their concept of the "current time"
by looking at the HTTP headers we send on a failed request (which includes
our server clock), or to use an external service to fetch the time prior to
making a request.

Taylor Singletary
Developer Advocate, Twitter
http://twitter.com/episod


On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Damon Clinkscales <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just tried establishing a new connection to a different account with
> Twitterrific (which I believe uses xAuth) and it worked fine.
>
> So, there is presumably a bug in the iPad client I was testing. Unrelated.
>
> -damon
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Damon Clinkscales <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > Don't know if this is related, but I was testing a friend's iPad app
> > this morning which uses xAuth.
> >
> > When setting up a new account in his app, the app authorizes in my
> > Connections tab.  However, whenever his app tries to use the tokens,
> > we get an immediate HTTP 401.  None of the calls with the tokens he
> > has received are working for accessing.
> >
> > His account, which was auth'd (tokens retreived) over a month ago,
> > still works ok with his app, but my new setup with the same client
> > codebase is now failing.
> >
> > It seems like there might be something wrong with the OAuth tokens
> > being issued, but that seems kinda crazy that there could be a problem
> > that widespread.
> >
> > -damon
>

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