[twitter-dev] Re: "secure" key -> desktop applications?

2010-06-24 Thread Tom
Sure, that's an option, but not one which I would likely take, for multiple reasons, including rate limiting which I would like to apply to my client (my server is whitelisted so all accounts would suddenly get 2 -> that's a bad idea). I was wondering how the "big" clients do this, like TweetD

[twitter-dev] Re: "secure" key -> desktop applications?

2010-06-23 Thread Jef Poskanzer
You're right in theory that requests after the initial authentication step should not really need the app's credentials, a single authentication token & secret ought to suffice and the service (twitter) should remember which app each token came from. But shrug, that's just not the way OAuth works.

[twitter-dev] Re: "secure" key -> desktop applications?

2010-06-23 Thread Tom
Hi Taylor, Thanks for your reply. What I am currently considering is a connection to my server to exchange keys - which you mentioned. The xAuth part would be done from my server, the oAuth on the client. I wrote it like this from the start - exchanging keys with my server - because I didn't rea