401 error, Timestamp out of bounds

soodgniit · 2012-02-07T11:40:48.000Z

Hello Sir,

I think oauth signature is based upon server time, but to change it as we are on shared hosting and if we change the time of server it will affect other projects, please let us know the solution

waiting for reply.

episod · 2012-02-07T15:45:29.000Z

Think about the problem a little differently – it’s not that you necessarily need to set the clock to a different time, you just need to account for its drift in all your time calculations. When you issue a request to the API (perhaps consider using a HEAD request https://api.twitter.com/1/help/test.json ) you’ll get back a “Date” HTTP header like:


Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:43:53 GMT

Convert that timestamp to epoch time and compare to your system current epoch time. The difference in seconds between the two is right about where you want to adjust your current timestamps to.

I’d do this process no more than once or twice a day to keep in sync.

HsSoporte · 2012-03-22T17:58:14.000Z

Hi, I can know how you solved your problem with the error: “timestamp out of bounds”

therealquaki · 2012-05-10T21:18:00.000Z

Hey,
can you tell me, where and how I have to adjust my timestamps?
So, I found out that my system time is 2 hours (7200 seconds) later than Twitter’s server time.
Then, in OAuth.php I changed the function:
private static function generate_timestamp() {
return time()-7200;
}

But there is still a 401 error. I did a print_r($twitteroauth):

And my system timestamp was: 1336684598

Do you have an idea what to do now?

kurrik · 2012-05-11T22:14:11.000Z

Are you purposely obscuring your consumer key and secret in that request, or are those values actually being sent as YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET ?

jama21ve · 2012-06-03T02:13:26.000Z

Sorry, i am new in this. Exactly how can i adjust the oauth_timestamp values?.. The code goes like this:


   $defaults = array("oauth_version" => OAuthRequest::$version,
                      "oauth_nonce" => OAuthRequest::generate_nonce(),
                      "oauth_timestamp" => OAuthRequest::generate_timestamp(),
                      "oauth_consumer_key" => $consumer->key);
private static function generate_timestamp() {

return time();

}

Im unable to change the server time because its not mine. I would appreciate any help you could give me…

vietnamaff · 2012-06-10T07:03:16.000Z

header(“Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT”);
header(“Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post-check=0, max-age=0”);
header(“Pragma: no-cache”);
header(“Last-Modified:”.gmdate(“D, d M Y H:i:s”)." GMT");
header(‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’);

NithyYathi · 2012-09-08T06:07:48.000Z

i have problem in 401 error using php

pls help me

liuliusquare · 2012-09-12T01:32:48.000Z

Same problem here, I can search, can get my timeline, but I can’t update my status using processing…
Getting this error:

TwitterException{statusCode=401, retryAfter=0, rateLimitStatus=null} Status code: 401

RListnet · 2012-09-13T16:38:38.000Z

Check if you have special chars like íñó

RListnet · 2012-09-13T16:46:43.000Z

If your problem is with tildes replace with the equivalent with entities numbers from here http://www.texaswebdevelopers.com/examples/xmlentities/xml_entities.asp

bits_qa3 · 2012-10-09T14:48:56.000Z

-1:
Relevant discussions can be on the Internet at:
http://www.google.co.jp/search?q=0ae6f91b or
http://www.google.co.jp/search?q=029022e3
TwitterException{exceptionCode=[0ae6f91b-029022e3], statusCode=-1, retryAfter=0, rateLimitStatus=null, version=2.1.11}

Can anyone explain what does this error mean, this occurs generally on some devices only.

0axaca21 · 2013-03-29T18:36:00.000Z

I had a proble with wordtwit, it said ‘Timestamp out of bounds’ when i tried to post a tweet in mi wordpress site.
The problem was because my server time
I fixed it doing this:

1… Create a php file in your server:

<? $request_url ="https://api.twitter.com/1/help/test.json"; $srvstamp = time(); // ---- server timestamp ---- $twheader = get_headers($request_url, 1); // ---- array with ['Date'] string $twistamp = strtotime($twheader['date']); // ---- twitter timestamp echo "
Server: ".date("Y.m.d (H:i:s)",$srvstamp)." - ".$srvstamp." \r\n"; echo "
Twitter: ".date("Y.m.d (H:i:s)",$twistamp)." - ".$twistamp." \r\n"; /*The diference between my server and twitter is*/ echo $twistamp - $srvstamp; ?>

2.- Open your browser ang go to your php file

I copied the diference between the timestamps

4.- Go to Ajust ->Wordtwit and saste that number in the last textfiled (timestamp)

5.- Save and that’s all

fsamir · 2013-05-15T23:56:52.000Z

A more reasonable solution, without modifying application code, is to change the server’s timezone to GMT.
In Debian/Ubuntu you can do the following:

sudo vim /etc/timezone
replace whatever is there by: GMT
ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com

Also, I recommend doing a NTDPupdate on a regular basis. Eg:

sudo vim /etc/cron.daily/ntpdate
Add the following:
#!/bin/sh
ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com
sudo chmod 755 /etc/cron.daily/ntpdate
sudo /etc/cron.daily/ntpdate

halluci_nation · 2013-08-06T15:21:59.000Z

It took me a while to figure it out… The time on my server was off, about 400 seconds. Synced the time and installed the ntp daemon to keep it in sync and now everything is working again.

goyal_raman · 2013-12-07T10:58:18.000Z

check your system time is correct or not

istainfo · 2014-01-06T00:11:00.000Z

by using the code below

<? $request_url ="https://api.twitter.com/1/help/test.json"; $srvstamp = time(); // ---- server timestamp ---- $twheader = get_headers($request_url, 1); // ---- array with ['Date'] string $twistamp = strtotime($twheader['date']); // ---- twitter timestamp echo "
Server: ".date("Y.m.d (H:i:s)",$srvstamp)." - ".$srvstamp." \r\n"; echo "
Twitter: ".date("Y.m.d (H:i:s)",$twistamp)." - ".$twistamp." \r\n"; echo " The diference between my server and twitter is $twistamp - $srvstamp"; ?> i got Server: 2014.01.06 (00:08:20) - 1388966900 Twitter: 1970.01.01 (00:00:00) - The diference between my server and twitter is - 1388966900 can someone from the twitter dev see in to this ?

is that correct ?
My server Time zone is: UTC
Php Time zone is: UTC
Script timezone and ini-set timezone match.

Kavithasanthose · 2015-01-06T05:18:08.981Z

Error—> oauth.signpost.exception.OAuthCommunicationException: Communication with the service provider failed: Server returned HTTP response code: 401 for URL: https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token.

Solution :

Adjust your local system time zone to (UTC) Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London to be synced with twitter server
Make sure you are passing oauth_verifer along with consumer parameter while requesting for oauthtoken
Code:
String queryString = request.getQueryString();
String parm[] = queryString.split("&");
String verifier[] = parm[1].split("=");
provider.retrieveAccessToken(consumer, verifier[1]);

how_to_trade_sa · 2015-05-07T10:49:25.554Z

I think server in this case is the client

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