[twitter-dev] Re: Newb OAuth question...

2009-03-27 Thread Abraham Williams
If you don't need to access the API as the user in between sessions then currently no. On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:00, Chris wrote: > > So say I send them through the OAuth flow everytime, would there then > be any reason to persist their access tokens in the DB? as I could > just save it to the

[twitter-dev] Re: Newb OAuth question...

2009-03-27 Thread Chris
So say I send them through the OAuth flow everytime, would there then be any reason to persist their access tokens in the DB? as I could just save it to the session when they run through the flow again. On Mar 27, 9:39 am, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2 options: > 1) Roll your ow

[twitter-dev] Re: Newb OAuth question...

2009-03-27 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, Just to let everybody know, I'm currently working on a way for you to use Twitter for login without getting back a new access token every time. The database churn is not good for performance, and the re- authorize is a crappy user experience. It's really a lose-lose at the mo

[twitter-dev] Re: Newb OAuth question...

2009-03-27 Thread Abraham Williams
2 options: 1) Roll your own authentication or use something like OpenID, Facbook Connect, etc. 2) Send the users through the OAuth flow every time they visit your site. Abraham On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 02:29, Chris wrote: > > Hey guys, this is probably a pretty basic question - but somehow I > h