Gwibber not displaying twitter timeline due to API change upstream requiring GET instead of POST

Marking this as 'won't fix' until we hear back from twitterapi whether the change was intended or not and what we should do about it

The problem here is that Gwibber is using POST request instead of GET, that's why it doesn't work. If you use GET request (as indicated on the Twitter API page), everything works as expected.

Ah, thanks Michal!

Revision 286 fixes the issues for me.

Well, I've just managed to patch my Fedora installation of Gwibber using revision 286, and it is now working fine for me. Do you know when the new updates will become official so I can get Fedora to update it properly?

Any update on the ppa that can solve this issue would be hugely appreciated!

For any people using Fedora, an update is in the process of being pushed out which fixes this problem.

fix is committed on lp:gwibber and released on daily ppa

fix is also committed on lp:gwibber/1.0 and will hit jaunty whenever ~fta gets a chance to upload a .deb

After installing the revision I find that when running gwibber twitter is locking me out for too many login requests after about 20 mins. I have refresh set to 2 mins. Is this a bug?? If i don't use gwibber and use another client I have no problem.

From what I understand, every time Gwibber refreshes, it makes two requests - one for your main timeline, and one for your replies timeline. If you have it set to 2 minutes, you're already making 60 requests in an hour (the limit for non-whitelisted accounts is 100). It shouldn't be locking you out after 20 minutes though. I suspect this is a separate issue, so perhaps start a new ticket about it?

@RawisWar see bug 359885

not sure why the ubuntu task was fix committed. ken has prepared the backport for jaunty. assigning to him.

Attached the backported patch fixing the twitter api change

Packaging including this patch can be found at lp:~ken-vandine/gwibber/packaging

When can a fix in Ubuntu be expected?

yeah....intrepid's version of gwibber is now working fine, but jaunty's version is still giving me 400: bad request

I'm using rev 302 from the daily PPA, but still seem to be experiencing this problem:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/__init__.py", line 49, in get_data
    for message in method(client):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/twitter.py", line 209, in receive
    for data in self.get_messages():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/twitter.py", line 159, in get_messages
    urllib.urlencode({"count": self.account["receive_count"] or "20"})))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/twitter.py", line 154, in connect
    url, data, headers = {"Authorization": self.get_auth()})).read()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 124, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 389, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 502, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 427, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 361, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 510, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
HTTPError: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request

I've used 1.0.2~bzr295-0ubuntu1~daily1 and it worked fine. Now I'm using 1.0.2~bzr302-0ubuntu1~daily1 and no problem either.

Please track http 400 errors on bug 359885, they are a separate issue

Attached debdiff for bugs 358341 and 361120

Uploading (ftp) to ubuntu (upload.ubuntu.com)
[ Uploading job gwibber_0.8-0ubuntu4_source
 gwibber_0.8-0ubuntu4.diff.gz 6.3 kB, ok (1 s, 6.32 kB/s)
 gwibber_0.8-0ubuntu4.dsc 1.2 kB, ok (0 s, 1.16 kB/s)
 gwibber_0.8-0ubuntu4_source.changes 1.5 kB, ok (0 s, 1.54 kB/s) ]

Thank you.

This bug was fixed in the package gwibber - 0.8-0ubuntu4

---------------
gwibber (0.8-0ubuntu4) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - Added python-xdg to Depends
    - Added python-indicate to Recommends
  * debian/patches/01_add_message_indicator_support.patch
    - Backported support for the message indicator from trunk (LP: #361120)
  * debian/patches/02_twitter_api_fix.patch
    - Backported twitter API fixes from trunk (LP: #358341)

 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:21:49 -0400