POST Upload chunked INIT command gets media parameter is missing error

[andypiper]

twurl -P <proxy>

[BinCodinLong]

What does <proxy> mean?
I just did it:
C:\tools\ruby22\bin>twurl -H upload.twitter.com -X POST “/1.1/media/upload.json” --file “C:/Vietnam2
.jpg” --file-field “media” -t -P <127.0.0.1:8888>
The syntax of the command is incorrect.

[andypiper]

Using <pointy brackets> is the standard way of saying this is a parameter you should fill in - so drop the < and > from your command and just enter the IP and port (may need to be quoted since you have a port there, I’m not certain). BTW I got that syntax from twurl -h.

[BinCodinLong]

Hi:
I was just writing back to you to say exactly what you just said about the general convention <something>; and I too got the same info as you from twurl -h of course.

What’s lacking is an explanation: Should User do twurl -P 127.0.0.1:8888; such that twurl will from then on send its requests through the proxy until User turns proxy off with maybe
twurl -P followed by nothing.
Or does User add -P 127.0.0.1:8888 to each of his command lines, like this:
C:\tools\ruby22\bin>twurl -H upload.twitter.com -X POST "/1.1/media/upload.json" --file "C:/Vietnam2.jpg" --file-field "media" -t -P 127.0.0.1:8888

Do you follow me? Documentation has to be explicit and thorough.

I’ve done many things:
twurl -P 127.0.0.1:8888 and
`twurl -P “127.0.0.1:8888” and many more.
All result in twurl merely printing out its help message with no indication it is going to start using the proxy.

twurl -H upload.twitter.com -X POST "/1.1/media/upload.json" --file "C:/Vietnam2 .jpg" --file-field "media" -t -P 127.0.0.1:8888
results in the error I sent you several messages back.

Anyway, we’re kinda getting off-topic; this whole proxy thing was just a BTW.
The real issue today is that
twurl -H upload.twitter.com -X POST "/1.1/media/upload.json" --file "C:/Vietnam2 .jpg" --file-field "media" -t
fails.

Maybe we should get back to that.

[BinCodinLong]

Andy:
I just went to my twitter timeline, and one of the https://django-rest-apis.herokuapp.com/media/photo uploads did indeed work. The image and text are there on my timeline.

So, we can perhaps disregard my Server Error (500) report.

Also, lets stop thinking about the proxy business.

Le’s get back to the original issue at message 18:
twurl -H upload.twitter.com -X POST "/1.1/media/upload.json" --file "C:/Vietnam2 .jpg" --file-field "media" -t
is failing.

[tushar_io]

@BinCodinLong Please could you post the image (Vietnam2.jpg) that you are trying to upload? Are you receiving any error code/message in http response?

[BinCodinLong]

Hi tushargj:
The image file is at: https://t.co/eivKpGiB0g
I believe the image got uploaded when I went to:
https://django-rest-apis.herokuapp.com/media/photo
I can’t be certain which of numerous attempts actually did the upload,
because I kept trying and getting Server Error (500).

Today’s discussion started at message 18, with:
twurl -H upload.twitter.com -X POST “/1.1/media/upload.json” --file “C:/Vietnam2
.jpg” --file-field “media” -t
which responded:
{“errors”:[{“code”:324,“message”:“The validation of media ids failed.”}]}read 98 bytes
You can see the entire -t trace there (message 18)

It’s suspicious to me that there’s an application/octet-stream involved;
after all the image file is known to be Vietnam2.jpg
But if there is to be an octet-stream, why is it only 90-some bytes long?
The Vietnam2.jpg file is way longer than that: about 56K bytes

BTW: I also did the same twurl with Vietnam2.png, about 413 KB
It also failed in the same way.

Thank you for getting involved; I hope we can work this out.

[tushar_io]

@BinCodinLong Thanks for more information. Your suspicion about filesize is spot on. Twurl command is not sending entire image file (based on content-length header) for some reason which is the reason behind 400 failure. I am trying to get a windows machine so I can repro it.

[tushar_io]

I was able to repro this issue on a windows machine. It looks like a problem with windows version of twurl. @andypiper Do we know any twurl expert?

[BinCodinLong]

It’s strange, brcause other twurl stuff has worked ok.
Not great news for you guys – gotta fix it – but it’s progress.
Gotta go for the day. Continue tomorrow?

[andypiper]

I would hit up @jaakkosf for twurl assistance.

[BinCodinLong]

If someone is going to work on twurl, maybe they can look at the -P option too.

Do twurl -P 127.0.0.1:8888 and you get nothing but the help message.

Do twurl -H upload.twitter.com -X POST “/1.1/media/upload.json” --file “C:/Vietnam2
.jpg” --file-field “media” -P 127.0.0.1:8888 -t
and twurl crashes.