REST API, regarding 403 error code?

Question

We are posting Tweets to multiple accounts from same IP address using software application. And in response from twitter , we are getting 403 error code, API used by us is REST API.

Is there any limitations on IP address, because surely we are not crossing API post limit mentioned for REST API.

We are also not going above 140 characters.

Waiting for reply..

Thanks in advance..

Answer 1

If it is a recent error (since Jan 14th) you can try to add this:

ConfigurationBuilder cb = new ConfigurationBuilder();
cb.setUseSSL(true); // <======== set use SSL

Twitter added a requirement on January 14th to use SSL/HTTPS when using their API.

The above code fixed it for me.

Answer 2

api.twitter.com now requires SSL/TLS for all connections as of today(14th jan2014)

ConfigurationBuilder cb = new ConfigurationBuilder();

cb.setUseSSL(true);

Put these above lines of code where you are making a call to twitter.

It works...

Answer 3

if you are using twitter4j.properties, you can also set it there. http.useSSL=true

Answer 4

If this is the exception that is being thrown and if you read the error it says:

This code is used when requests are being denied due to update limits.