Twitter’ll phase out HTTP basic authentication by August 2010. In the link my scenarios are from Desktop Applications. Basically my client should tweet new posts on a website.
This would be incredibly simple with HTTP basic auth, because I can store and use my account’s username and password in the app to authenticate.
However, with OAUTH I can get final credentials by two means:
- Callback method. You are redirected to Twitter, (login if isn’t), click allow access, get redirection back to your callback URL.
- PIN mode. You get a link to open, (login if isn’t), click allow access, receive PIN code. Use this PIN code to authenticate your app.
Do I understand correctly that PIN codes also expire? How is it possible, given a username and password just to tweet from a client application? How can a server side script log in with the username/password and click allow access? All scenarios I could google up are for a web application to authenticate via twitter where the user is in front of the browser to walk through the redirect.
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