google analytics apis not working in production - google-analytics

I am trying to use the google analytics apis v3 to embed the analytics graph to my website using Certificate file. I got it to work on the local machine but when I deploy the code to my web server it produces this error:
The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request.
Does anyone know what is causing this error message and why I can't get the google graph on my production website?
Here is the code that is working on my local machine:
string scope = AnalyticsService.Scopes.AnalyticsReadonly.GetStringValue(),
x509Certificate2File = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/privatekey.p12"),
x509Certificate2FilePassword = "notasecret",
serviceAccountId = "xxxxxxx#developer.gserviceaccount.com",
profileId = "ga:xxxxxxxx",
startDate = "2013-10-06",
endDate = "2013-11-07";
AuthorizationServerDescription desc = GoogleAuthenticationServer.Description;
X509Certificate2 key = new X509Certificate2(x509Certificate2File, x509Certificate2FilePassword, X509KeyStorageFlags.Exportable);
AssertionFlowClient client = new AssertionFlowClient(desc, key) { ServiceAccountId = serviceAccountId, Scope = scope };
OAuth2Authenticator<AssertionFlowClient> auth = new OAuth2Authenticator<AssertionFlowClient>(client, AssertionFlowClient.GetState);
AnalyticsService gas = new AnalyticsService(new BaseClientService.Initializer() { Authenticator = auth });
DataResource.GaResource.GetRequest request = gas.Data.Ga.Get(profileId, startDate, endDate, "ga:visits");
request.Dimensions = "ga:day";
request.MaxResults = 10;
/* error 400 occur here on the production */
Google.Apis.Analytics.v3.Data.GaData data = request.Execute();
Thanks

There is only one possibility and without looking at the code you're going to have to chase it down; one of the paths are wrong and needs to be changed. This could be in the form of an IP address as well when I say "path" as you are calling something that is not there. It worked fine on your local machine (correct path) and it gave a 400 on the remote one (bad request) as in calling the wrong place.

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