Howdy,

I've been using GAE to make Twitter calls. In the last few days my Twitter API calls started failing with this error:

403 Forbidden: The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it. If you are posting from an API tool please ensure that the HTTP_REFERER header is not set.

To my knowledge I'm not setting referer (code appended). My code has been working for a long time after Twitter required HTTP_REFERER header to not be set.

Has anything changed on the GAE side? The code works from the test web server but fails when published into the cloud.

Any thoughts on what might be happening or what I can do about it?

thanx

class SendChime(webapp.RequestHandler): def get(self): self.response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/plain' username = self.request.get("username")

logging.debug("Sending chime for user=" + username) login = username; password = password chime = self.get_chime() payload= {'status' : chime, 'source' : "innertwitter"} payload= urllib.urlencode(payload)

base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (login, password)) [:-1] headers = {'Authorization': "Basic %s" % base64string}

url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml" result = urlfetch.fetch(url, payload=payload, method=urlfetch.POST, headers=headers)

self.response.out.write(result.content)