I want to programmatically log into twitter periodically and update my status. This will happen a few times a day from my server without any user interaction. In order to do this, I need my server-based app to authenticate itself with twitter using my login credentials.
It seems I have two choices. First, I can take the easy route and use basic authentication, but this is considered bad practice at this point in time. The second and apparently preferred approach is to use OAuth. So I have spent the past day learning what I can about OAuth. While I have learned loads about who created OAuth, what the history of the name is and that it is a "double entente" [sic - it's double entendre]. I have read beginners guides only to find that they are obsolete or authoritative gruide's only to find they are incomplete. All in all, I feel I have read about a lot of things, but in the end I haven't learned much at all. What I have learned is that, if this is to work at all, it will require the two-legged model rather than the three-legged model. I have struggled to find very much information about the two-legged model or get any confirmation that twitter even supports this. I did find what I believe to be the original spec for this model and it seemed to indicate that the model was simpler than the three-legged dance. It apparently requires the consumer key and consumer secret but no token key or token secret. I guess that the consumer key and secret is adequate to authenticate the application - and somehow maybe the app is associated with the twitter account so that is good enough. [???]. So I registered my app with twitter, got the consumer key and consumer secret, found a library to work with, and set about trying to get something to work, But alas, all I seem to get is a login popping up at me and then nothing. Am I on the right track? Or should I just abandon an effort to follow best practices and instead do the simpler thing? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OAuth" group. To post to this group, send email to oa...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to oauth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oauth?hl=en.
