[twitter-dev] Using oauth in a desktop app

2010-06-02 Thread Arthur Pires
After some work (and some help from the group) my implementation works, but... The QUEST to get an access token 1. app gets a request token from twitter 2. user clicks a button on the ap 3. app opens a twitter page, user types username/password 4. twitter gives user a PIN 5. user

Re: [twitter-dev] Using oauth in a desktop app

2010-06-02 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Arthur, Indeed it is a Quest. You don't need to do this entire round trip every single time. In Twitter's OAuth implementation, when we respond with the access token to you in the access token step, we also include the screen_name and id of the user. You in turn should store the id,

Re: [twitter-dev] Using oauth in a desktop app

2010-06-02 Thread Arthur Pires
Thanks for clarifying ^^ Arthur. 2010/6/2 Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com Hi Arthur, Indeed it is a Quest. You don't need to do this entire round trip every single time. In Twitter's OAuth implementation, when we respond with the access token to you in the access token