I submitted this to the issue queue since this is a big problem for people with multiple computers: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=372
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 21:46, Chen Jie <chenyue...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I got the same problem, but it seems the access token is not invalid > immediately, I am developing a web app, and I authorize my account > access for my local development environment and deploy environment, > the early access token will be invalid in server hours. > > Though this problem is not an issue for me, but it exactly impact > desktop apps which can use several places and do not have user > identification. > > -- > chenyuejie > http://twittergadget.appspot.com/ > > On Mar 22, 3:54 am, Joshua Perry <j...@6bit.com> wrote: > > I've been going through testing OAuth with my desktop application on my > > laptop and on my desktop computer. I noticed that when I get an > > AccessToken with my laptop, my desktop then starts getting 401 > > unauthorized errors and vice versa. I'm not able to have the same > > application authorized on two computers simultaneously. > > > > Is this a bug or is there a way around this? The only way I can think > > to get around the limitation is to somehow transfer the good AccessToken > > from one computer to any others that I want to use my application on. > > Perhaps some out-of-band mechanism that I provide on my own website to > > allow a user's application to get their currently active AccessToken, > > though I'm not sure this is a service that I'm prepared to support. > > > > I'm not sure how I expect Twitter to react to a second AccessToken > > request for an application when one already exists, but currently it > > seems to just replace the current one and only allows a single active > > AccessToken per application. This seems to only be a limiting factor for > > desktop applications. > > > > Perhaps storing and allowing up to 3 or 4 active AccessTokens per > > application would be sane. > -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from: Madison Wisconsin United States.
