Bug#735366: libnet-twitter-perl: 403 Forbidden or certificate error due to SSL/TLS traffic restriction

[gregor herrmann]

Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/semifor/Net-Twitter/issues/37
Control: tag -1 + upstream

On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 01:58:16 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> Package: libnet-twitter-perl
> Version: 4.01000-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> The Net::Twitter module suddenly stopped working on 2014-01-14 at
> about 19:30 UTC. I now also get 403 Forbidden errors. The cause is
> a change in the Twitter API:
> 
>   https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/24239

See above for upstream bug.

Seems like adding "ssl => 1" is enough; probably changing the default
makes sense.

Cheers,
gregor
 

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