[twitter-dev] Re: Authentication on opening Twitter.com in browser

[qip-er]

Hello, Matt.

 This would require the application to know the users credentials -
Why? We already have authorized tokens. When authorized application is
making requests to Twitter API your (Twitter) engine is know which
user the application is on behalf of.
So Twitter could give us a one-time token to open in a web browser.

For example, I have a friend whose page is closed for non-friends.
That's why to open Following page I need to be authenticated, for
example that way:

sent to Twitter:
GET /oauth/get_website_token HTTP/1.1
Authorization: OAuth ...
...

received from Twitter:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK

web_token=a7b078a62c1123a79e2c06ca37541a5a298d

Now I can open a link in a browser:
http://twitter.com/NotAPublicPerson/following?web_token=a7b078a62c1123a79e2c06ca37541a5a298d
When the user will open this link in a browser he/she will
automatically logged in, and a specified web_token will be expired.

Any cons of such a method?

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[twitter-dev] Authentication on opening Twitter.com in browser

[qip-er]

Hello!

Is it possible to open Twitter website with a user logged in?
There are links in my desktop application that forwards a user into
twitter.com pages, and it would be handy to automate login operation.

Is there a method?

Thanks.

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