Twitter auth ''Missing OAuth request token cookie"

[Thomas Leese]

I have a twitter account handler and I keep getting the error "Missing OAuth request token cookie"

Here is the code for my account handler:

class AccountTwitterHandler(BaseHandler, tornado.auth.TwitterMixin):

    @tornado.web.asynchronous

    def get(self):

        if self.get_argument("oauth_token", None):

            self.get_authenticated_user(self.async_callback(self._on_auth))

            return

        self.authorize_redirect()

    def _on_auth(self, user):

        if not user:

            raise tornado.web.HTTPError(500, "Twitter auth failed")

        self.write(user)

        self.finish()

I've looked through the tornado code and I don't understand why this error appears.

[Ben Darnell]

I think this is a sign that the callback url registered with twitter is on a different domain than what you're accessing in the browser.  Most often this is because you've registered hostname.foo.com with twitter, but you're accessing it in development as just "hostname" or "localhost".  

-Ben

[Thomas Leese]

That would make sense, yeah. I'll try that.