Hi All, For one of my webapps, I am trying to have all of the functionality driven on the client-side as much as possible. One of the features I would like to have is to list a user's direct messages in a sidebar or something. I would really like to use the json feed to get the data, and have some javascript parse and display it. The problem is that this request requires a POST and HTTP Authentication, so I can't exactly just put <script src="http://twitter.com/direct_messages.json"; type="text/javascript"></script> in my code and have it load properly. Likewise, I cannot create an AJAX request (from jquery or some such library) for "http://twitter.com/direct_messages.json"; because that runs into the cross-site request restriction. In the past I have gotten around this by making a local php "proxy" page that actaully uses cURL behind the scenes to get the remote data and use that page in the AJAX request, but this is just a kludge and really becomes a server-side function, potentially becoming a bottleneck.
So, does anyone know of a way to make a truly client-side request for this data while taking care of the POST and authentication requirements? Thanks for any info, -Chad
