Operation timed out after 30000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received

ThatG33k · 2013-09-03T13:52:14.000Z

After discussion with Twitter Network Engineer it looks like the network problem is now fixed (at least for me). I’m not sure if they applied a global network fix, or a “testing” fix, so not sure if it’s permanent or not for now.

For those who have the “missing url” error, this is NOT related to this issue, and i don’t think it’ll get answered here.

I’ll wait maybe a good 48hrs before saying it’s officially fixed, but for now i’m able to post tweets with media at a very fast rate, so i’m happy with the solution.

Thanks Twitter,

episod · 2013-09-03T15:01:17.000Z

Are you sure that the Streaming API is what you want to use in this case? That’s a continuous open connection which doesn’t seem right for what you might be trying to accomplish. What you describe sounds like normal behavior when you’re not parsing the live stream correctly. Typically with a Streaming API you actually want to separate the collection of data from the processing it.

episod · 2013-09-03T15:02:07.000Z

Sorry, it was a holiday weekend in the United States. Content caught in a moderation queue is not reviewed until we’re open for business again.

symbiostock · 2013-09-04T04:53:00.000Z

I just want to verify that this problem I’ve been experiencing over a week (this is a wordpress plugin) is related.

code: 195
message: Missing or invalid url parameter

…is not related to changes in the API or incorrect coding, but is in fact a twitter issue that will be resolved?

I’m using the abraham API class too.

maciejzgadzaj · 2013-09-04T07:52:31.000Z

Thanks Taylor!

Not at all sure as it turned out, even more, that definitely wasn’t something I wanted to use. Oh well, my fault really, done it all too fast, only skimmed through the documentation instead of reading it properly, and even the name of “streaming” API didn’t ring a bell.

Anyway, even before realizing this I have switched to statuses/user_timeline and magically everything started to work, so I’m all fine now.

Thanks again!

episod · 2013-09-04T14:49:21.000Z

The twitteroauth library appears incapable of correctly sending these requests without further modification – from what I’ve been able to gather, if it was working in the previous implementation it was merely by coincidence, not because the library was correctly formulating the request. You would need to modify that library to handle multi-part POSTs correctly in both the OAuth code and the HTTP request handling code.

ss_tatar · 2013-09-05T04:49:55.000Z

Can you show an example ?

symbiostock · 2013-09-06T03:13:24.000Z

This was a nightmare! Answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11243612/does-abrahams-twitteroauth-library-work-for-update-with-media

(For my case anyway)

ss_tatar · 2013-09-06T16:10:04.000Z

it is not library’s problem. Problem’s source is Twitter API now!

ss_tatar · 2013-09-08T23:25:55.000Z

More than one week and still same thanks.

mokalovesoulmat · 2013-09-09T08:28:41.000Z

Hello, mine is not working, I am in GMT +7.

Thanks!

jonyArreglamelo · 2013-09-13T16:44:04.000Z

this twitter is suspicious…

ss_tatar · 2013-09-13T17:29:27.000Z

more than 2 weeks.
Great support.

episod · 2013-09-13T17:38:02.000Z

There are two issues conflated in this thread. One of them has been resolved.

The other issue was that some libraries, like the twitteroauth PHP library, may have worked in the past for statuses/update_with_media – but if it did, it was coincidental – not because someone coded the process according to proper multi-part HTTP requests and OAuth 1.0A.

twitteroauth will need modifications to correctly work with statuses/update_with_media. This link from ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11243612/does-abrahams-twitteroauth-library-work-for-update-with-media ) above points out some of the work that would have to be done to properly handle these requests.

Connectinq · 2013-09-18T23:43:54.000Z

Problem solved with codeBird library.
Thanks.

academdog · 2013-09-19T07:19:55.000Z

Yesterday I updated tmhOAuth library in my project from 0.8.2 to 0.8.3 but nothing changed. update_with_media method suddenly started to work again tonignt. Now it works fine both with tmhOAuth library and TwitterOAuth (Abraham’s) library (which was never updated in my project since very beginning).

episod · 2013-09-19T14:35:49.000Z

You shouldn’t assume that means it will continue working for you. This likely just means that legacy implementation is sometimes going back into production, with its more lax rules about correctness of the request.

GBMtesting · 2013-11-18T16:04:21.000Z

I was having the same issue with the tmhOAuth library. I changed the curl_timeout from 10 to 30 and everything seems to be working now.

soarlogic · 2013-11-27T14:40:00.000Z

hi i am using code below …

$toa = new TwitterOAuth(’***************’, ‘************’, ‘************’, ‘******************’);
$toa->host = “https://api.twitter.com/1.1/”;
$image = ‘http://localhost/fb_tweety/files/liketwitty.png’;
$ret = $toa->post(‘statuses/update_with_media’, array(‘status’ => ‘Test message1’, ‘media[]’ => ‘@’.realpath(($image))));
echo json_encode($ret) . “
\n”;

but getting following error:

{“errors”:[{“code”:195,“message”:“Missing or invalid url parameter.”}]}

please help me…

episod · 2013-11-27T15:07:49.000Z

If I recall correctly, TwitterOAuth doesn’t handle OAuth for multipart content-types. You might want to use a different library, like tmhOAuth.