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Expand Up @@ -1103,6 +1103,15 @@ def _ensure_client_transaction(self):
# a different TLS fingerprint on the same IP — a detection vector.
cffi_session = _get_cffi_session()
ct_headers = _gen_ct_headers()
# Fetch the homepage authenticated: the logged-out page no
# longer embeds the ondemand chunk map / loading-x-anim frames
# that transaction-ID generation parses, so an anonymous fetch
# always fails init and search requests go out without the
# x-client-transaction-id header (HTTP 404).
ct_headers["Cookie"] = self._cookie_string or (
"auth_token=%s; ct0=%s" % (self._auth_token, self._ct0)
)
ct_headers["X-Csrf-Token"] = self._ct0
home_page = cffi_session.get(
"https://x.com", headers=ct_headers, timeout=10,
)
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