Make TwitterMixin.twitter_request accept complete urls, not just partial paths.

Closes #418.

diff --git a/tornado/auth.py b/tornado/auth.py
index 5701bee400bac8da84085b4f4d872e82bd2d0459..a7162105304c546af3e1cdcde4a91a759375b077 100644 (file)
--- a/tornado/auth.py
+++ b/tornado/auth.py
@@ -499,8 +499,13 @@ class TwitterMixin(OAuthMixin):
                     self.finish("Posted a message!")
 
         """
+        if path.startswith('http:') or path.startswith('https:'):
+            # Raw urls are useful for e.g. search which doesn't follow the
+            # usual pattern: http://search.twitter.com/search.json
+            url = path
+        else:
+            url = "http://api.twitter.com/1" + path + ".json"
         # Add the OAuth resource request signature if we have credentials
-        url = "http://api.twitter.com/1" + path + ".json"
         if access_token:
             all_args = {}
             all_args.update(args)