Re: [twitter-dev] How to get started with the Twitter OAuth API and jQuery

2010-06-18 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Christian, Unless you're operating in a safe Javascript environment (like Palm's WebOS, or using server-side Javascript), it's not recommended to use OAuth 1.0a in Javascript because your consumer secret will be in plaintext and easily viewed/crawled/scraped/abused. Aside from security issues,

[twitter-dev] How to get started with the Twitter OAuth API and jQuery

2010-06-18 Thread cosenary
Hello, I'm new to Twitter API and I try to create an easy jQuery script which allows me to load the userprofile data (http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/ account/verify_credentials). I already requested the oauth_token and the oauth_token_secret (with php). But I don't know the purpose of the oauth_t