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    copied!<p>This is a weird one that anyone can repro at home (I think) - I am trying to write a simple service to run searches on Twitter on a service hosted on EC2. Twitter returns me errors 100% of the time when run in ruby, but not in other languages, which would indicate it's not an IP-blocking issue. Here is an example:</p> <pre><code>admin@ec2-xx-101-152-xxx-production:~$ irb irb(main):001:0&gt; require 'net/http' =&gt; true irb(main):002:0&gt; res = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse('http://search.twitter.com/search.json'), {'q' =&gt; 'twitter'}) =&gt; #&lt;Net::HTTPBadRequest 400 Bad Request readbody=true&gt; irb(main):003:0&gt; exit admin@ec2-xx-101-152-xxx-production:~$ curl http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=twitter {"results":[{"text":"&amp;quot;Social Media and SE(Search Engine) come side by side to help promote your business and bran...&lt;snip/&gt; </code></pre> <p>As you see, CURL works, irb does not. When I run on my local windows box in irb, success:</p> <pre><code>$ irb irb(main):001:0&gt; require 'net/http' =&gt; true irb(main):002:0&gt; res = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse('http://search.twitter.com/search.json'), {'q' =&gt; 'twitter'}) =&gt; #&lt;Net::HTTPOK 200 OK readbody=true&gt; </code></pre> <p>This is confusing...if there was some kind of core bug in Net::HTTP, I would think it would show up both on windows and linux, and if I was being blocked by my IP, then curl shouldn't work either. I tried this on a fresh Amazon instance too with a fresh IP addy. </p> <p>Anyone should be able to repro this 'cause I'm using the ec2onrails ami: </p> <pre><code>ec2-run-instances ami-5394733a -k testkeypair </code></pre> <p>Just ssh in after that and run those simple lines above. Anyone have ideas what's going on? </p> <p>Thanks!</p>
 

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