Hi Christopher, Could you attempt to get the response body for the request either by repeating the request or enhancing your logs. The reason for the 401 is communicated in the response body and knowing that will help explain what is going on.
Best, @themattharris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Christopher Stolte <stolte...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > I am a Java developer working on a web application that makes use of > the Twitter API. We use the Signpost library (version 1.2.1.1) to > perform OAuth and issue API requests, and have been doing so > successfully for months. We have been signing our requests with a > whitelisted key and secret that has a 20,000 request/hour rate limit. > > In the last few days, we started getting only 401 Not Authorized > responses when using these credentials. Upon looking back at our > server logs, I notice other requests failures dating back to at least > Feb 17, but they are sporadic. Error messages look like this: > > WARN org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient Authentication > error: Unable to respond to any of these challenges: {oauth=WWW- > Authenticate: OAuth realm="http://api.twitter.com"} > > The response header shows 401 but no other enlightening information. > > I have paid attention to and read lots of other postings related to > OAuth, and want to emphasize that our system has been working for > quite a while - we make calls using the proper end points and so > forth: > > http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?user_id=[id] > > Something appears to have changed on Twitter's end but we don't know > what. > > Can anyone shed some light on what might be happening? We have > already verified with Twitter API support that our credentials should > still be viable - perhaps there has been an inadvertent shutdown of > that account? > > Thank you in advance for any help or guidance! > > Sincerely, > Chris Stolte > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
