Sample error: “InternalOAuthError: failed to obtain request token”

[repoman]

I get this when trying the sample.

This is my callback URL:

callbackURL: "http://127.0.0.1:3000/auth/twitter/callback"

InternalOAuthError: failed to obtain request token
at /Users/frode/Dropbox/Nettsider/signin/node_modules/passport-twitter/node_modules/passport-oauth/lib/passport-oauth/strategies/oauth.js:155:36
at /Users/frode/Dropbox/Nettsider/signin/node_modules/passport-twitter/node_modules/passport-oauth/node_modules/oauth/lib/oauth.js:510:17
at passBackControl (/Users/frode/Dropbox/Nettsider/signin/node_modules/passport-twitter/node_modules/passport-oauth/node_modules/oauth/lib/oauth.js:366:13)
at IncomingMessage. (/Users/frode/Dropbox/Nettsider/signin/node_modules/passport-twitter/node_modules/passport-oauth/node_modules/oauth/lib/oauth.js:378:9)
at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:88:20)
at HTTPParser.onMessageComplete (http.js:137:23)
at CleartextStream.ondata (http.js:1137:24)
at CleartextStream._push (tls.js:367:27)
at SecurePair.cycle (tls.js:688:20)
at EncryptedStream.write (tls.js:122:13)

[timisbusy]

I ran into the same issue and found that it only happened when I ran the app through http://localhost:3000. When the request went out through http://127.0.0.1:3000/ the token came through. Hope that helps.

[romefort]

same problem here, using http://127.0.0.1:3000/ did not help

[repoman]

I accessed the app at http://127.0.0.1:3000 and set the callbackURL to http://127.0.0.1:3000/auth/twitter/callback. I get the same error, still.

[repoman]

Which Node.js and Express versions are you using? I’m using Express 2.2.0 and the latest Node.js, 0.6.11.

[ljharb]

This continues to happen to me occasionally. It seems to fix itself over a period of time, regardless of whether I use localhost, 127.0.0.1, or any other hostfile alias. There's no way I'm getting rate limited by Twitter, and my internet continues to work just fine, so it's got to be something in the library. At the moment I have Node v0.6.11 and Express v2.5.8.

Anyone have any ideas?

[adaoraul]

I believe with my pull request #5 this problem will be solved

[repoman]

Hi. After I specified a callback URL on dev.twitter.com it seems to be working fine.

[jaredhanson]

I've just pushed new versions of passport-oauth (v0.1.7) and passport-twitter (v0.1.3). I suggest upgrading to these, as the error messages are more detailed. Any failure responses from the Twitter API will be reported, and it'll be clear wether the failure is on that side or on the local system (and what can potentially be done about it).

If this helps isolate any errors to something specific to Passport, file an issue. Thanks!

[iammerrick]

Still seeing this with latest packages....

[ktkaushik]

yeah, same here

[RPGillespie6]

@ktkaushik Are you sure you have the tokenURL set right? I was using GitLab OAuth, and I copy pasted the token URL from their documentation and it turned out to be wrong (if you copy-paste) and that's what was causing it for me.

[vengateshsubramaniyan]

Same problem here and I also solved that using npm update

[Pana]

Same problem here

[delivey]

For me, the issue was a npm audit fix --force after installing passport-twitter which fixed 3 moderate vulnerabilities of the package.

After reverting this, the issue no longer persists.

[Naeem-gg]

"InternalOAuthError: failed to obtain request token"
I ran into the same problem with latest "passport-twitter","express", and Node.
Is there any solution out there.