You can make calls to that resource without authentication. You will be rate
limited by your IP address, which on Google App Engine means your rate limit
will be shared by any other servers accessing Twitter from whatever your IP
address is at the moment.
You also could use OAuth and authenticate your own account for these
purposes to get an authenticated rate limit instead, which would add a bit
more predictability to your rate limiting.
Taylor
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Luciano Jr. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> there is any way of accomplishing the follow task:
>
> My project is hosted at google appengine
> I need to get the some user profile, but i dont want the current user
> to accept my application, there is nothing that i want in his account.
>
> I just need to authenticate the request to "http://api.twitter.com/1/
> users/show.xml?screen_name=101010", but, the actor user, doesnt need
> to authorize my application into his twitter account.
>
> Cant i do that? Should i use a dummy twitter account for requesting
> that page?
>
