Comment 19 for bug 259830

Ok it works for me with facebook and gmail, and both use https.

I think this may be happening because twitter.py sets the headers argument explicitly. In which case the solution is to simply move the authorization into the url (https://username:pass@blah), and allow urllib to set the headers appropriately (which is what I do with gmail, and it seems to work).

Unfortunately I don't have a twitter account so I can't try this out.