Yahoo! Pipes unable to access Twitter feeds.

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pjdonnelly

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Jul 21, 2008, 1:46:35 PM7/21/08
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Hi,

Our Yahoo! Pipe developers have been reporting a lot of 406 errors.

Can anyone in Twitter shed some light on the issue, and if its
business related, let us know who we should contact?

Thanks -Paul
Pipes Team.

Alex Payne

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Jul 21, 2008, 6:07:04 PM7/21/08
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We're handling this off-list, I think. For the record, we don't
explicitly throw 406 errors from our application. They could be from
either httpd or our load balancer.

--
Alex Payne
http://twitter.com/al3x

Kent Brewster

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Jul 21, 2008, 5:26:10 PM7/21/08
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Paul: are your developers hitting the unauthenticated APIs? If so,
they are being rate-limited out of existence. I ran into this one
myself; it's why Twitterati quit working.

--Kent

brainwipe

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Jul 23, 2008, 6:15:01 AM7/23/08
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I'm a Yahoo Pipes Dev who is getting a lot of 406 errors. I'm
aggregating from the standard RSS feeds that can be found on the
Twitter homepage.

Am I polling too often from Pipes?

Rob Lang

On Jul 21, 10:26 pm, Kent Brewster <kentb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul: are your developers hitting the unauthenticated APIs? If so,
> they are being rate-limited out of existence. I ran into this one
> myself; it's why Twitterati quit working.
>
> --Kent
>
> On Jul 21, 10:46 am, pjdonnelly <pjdonne...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > OurYahoo! Pipe developers have been reporting a lot of 406 errors.

Alex Payne

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Jul 23, 2008, 12:53:30 PM7/23/08
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We don't return 406 when you're polling too often; we return it for
invalid MIME types in requests.

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Alex Payne
http://twitter.com/al3x

brainwipe

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Jul 25, 2008, 12:09:42 PM7/25/08
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Ah, interesting. I am using the standard Yahoo Pipe for grabbing RSS
feeds, so I can't say what the MIME type is.

Rob

Jonathan

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Jul 28, 2008, 4:02:49 PM7/28/08
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Based on our testing it appears not an issue with the mime type.
Simple "curl" requests from a variety of servers other than our
outbound HTTP proxy servers work successfully. The same requests
originating on our proxy servers return 406's. I'd guess that
something in Twitters infrastructure is denying based on IP.

Jonathan

On Jul 25, 9:09 am, brainwipe <brainwi...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Ah, interesting. I am using the standardYahooPipe for grabbing RSS

efrenefren

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Aug 6, 2008, 9:35:10 AM8/6/08
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So is there a fix or a workaround for this?

Alex Payne

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Aug 6, 2008, 12:54:20 PM8/6/08
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A fix will be deployed today.

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Alex Payne
http://twitter.com/al3x

Kent Brewster

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Aug 6, 2008, 1:01:41 PM8/6/08
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Can you say more about the fix, please? It sounds like Pipes users
will be able to make unlimited calls to the unauthenticated Twitter
APIs again, which would be really, really sweet, and well worth
blogging about.

--Kent

Alex Payne

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Aug 6, 2008, 1:16:12 PM8/6/08
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Well, the initial fix is for the 406 issue. When that's resolved,
Pipes users will still run into the rate limit. If you contact me
off-list with the IPs that Pipes uses, I'll look into adding IP-based
whitelisting so we can get this working again.

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Alex Payne
http://twitter.com/al3x

Kent Brewster

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Aug 7, 2008, 2:00:51 PM8/7/08
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I'll ask Jonathan to ping you with those IPs, Alex, thanks.

--Kent

On Aug 6, 10:16 am, "Alex Payne" <a...@twitter.com> wrote:
> Well, the initial fix is for the 406 issue. When that's resolved,
> Pipes users will still run into the rate limit. If you contact me
> off-list with the IPs that Pipes uses, I'll look into adding IP-based
> whitelisting so we can get this working again.
>

efrenefren

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Aug 8, 2008, 10:56:48 AM8/8/08
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It now returns a 400 Bad Request Error in Yahoo Pipes

On Aug 8, 2:00 am, Kent Brewster <kentb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll ask Jonathan to ping you with those IPs, Alex, thanks.
>
> --Kent
>
> On Aug 6, 10:16 am, "Alex Payne" <a...@twitter.com> wrote:
>
> > Well, the initial fix is for the 406 issue.  When that's resolved,
> >Pipesusers will still run into the rate limit.  If you contact me
> > off-list with the IPs thatPipesuses, I'll look into adding IP-based

Alex Payne

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Aug 8, 2008, 1:08:09 PM8/8/08
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Yes, that is the expected behavior. They're running into the IP-based
rate limit for unauthenticated requests. We'll be whitelisting their
IPs shortly.

--
Alex Payne
http://twitter.com/al3x

Kent Brewster

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Aug 22, 2008, 6:19:06 PM8/22/08
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The whitelist form has been submitted with those Pipes IPs; hopefully
we will be working soon.

--Kent

efrenefren

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Sep 2, 2008, 7:47:06 PM9/2/08
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Accessing a twitter feed from yahoo pipes still returns a 400 Bad
Request. What does that mean?

On Aug 23, 6:19 am, Kent Brewster <kentbrews...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The whitelist form has been submitted with thosePipesIPs; hopefully

Alex Payne

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Sep 3, 2008, 12:48:37 PM9/3/08
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It means we still haven't figured out why they're not on our
whitelist. We'll be looking into it.

--
Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.
http://twitter.com/al3x

efrenefren

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Sep 16, 2008, 3:48:06 AM9/16/08
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Just a twitter feed in yahoo and it works!

On Jul 22, 1:46 am, pjdonnelly <pjdonne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> OurYahoo! Pipe developers have been reporting a lot of 406 errors.
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