tweepy.error.TweepError: Twitter error response: status code = 411

[Mohammad N. Khatib]

Whenever I try to update_status I get the following error

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/tweepy/binder.py", line
167, in _call
tweepy.error.TweepError: Twitter error response: status code = 411

Any ideas?

[Dharmesh Shah]

I ran into this problem earlier today.  The work-around is to pass a headers parameter as shown in the sample code below:

Result = API.update_status (status = TweetText, in_reply_to_status_id = ReplyToTweetID, headers={'content-length': 0})

Basically, you need the content-length header.   Passing this additional parameter fixed the problem for me (I was getting the 411 error too).

Hope that helps.

-Dharmesh

On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 11:00 PM, <facundo...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm getting the same, and error code is not listed in https://dev.twitter.com/docs/error-codes-responses

[Josh Roesslein]

I believe Twitter is looking into this issue. I guess their servers suddenly started being "strict" on HTTP 1.1.

I see someone has contributed a pull request to work around this issue. I'll look into merging this to master

and pushing a release.

[Josh Roesslein]

The issue seems to be resolved now. Not seeing any 411 errors when doing POST requests (ex: update_status()).