Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API

2010-09-01 Thread John Meyer
On 9/1/2010 6:03 PM, Mike Desjardins wrote: Yes, and your application's consumer secret ends with the following characters: jOU I obviously know the entire string and have the good sense not to reveal it here. The point is, it's trivially easy for me or anybody else to unzip your "packaged dow

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API

2010-09-01 Thread John Meyer
On 9/1/2010 6:46 PM, Julio Biason wrote: On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:58 PM, John Meyer wrote: And that assumes that you distribute the consumerkey and consumersecret with the app. Nothing about Open Source requires this. You could just as easily just distribute the source and require that users

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API

2010-09-01 Thread Julio Biason
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:56 PM, John Meyer wrote: > And rendering the key useless to the spammer. And to you. And your users. That's the whole problem with it. Yes, one could simply strings(1) one Mac app and probably retrieve the keys and spam the hell of Twitter with it. For the spammer, it do

[twitter-dev] How to access the twitter-streams

2010-09-01 Thread fred
Hello, first off, yes I read the FAQs and yes I read the docs. However, the stream-documentation does not provide a url to connect to and google results indicate that one should connect to http://betastream.twitter.com/spritzer.json which only returns: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Doc

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API

2010-09-01 Thread Julio Biason
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:57 PM, John Meyer wrote: > That's the way Twitter Tools for Wordpress works, and it isn't ackward at > all.  It's description leaves something to be desired, but it ain't rocket > science. WordPress users are "a complete different beast" than desktop users. Even if you us

[twitter-dev] Re: XAuth 401 error

2010-09-01 Thread MigrantP
Scratch that, it was simply a bonehead error on my part.. carry on =) On Sep 1, 5:25 pm, MigrantP wrote: > I should mention that I am having no problem posting updates to > twitter itself, but I cannot post pictures through twitpic or yfrog > due to this error.. and it was working earlier with no

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API

2010-09-01 Thread John Meyer
On 9/1/2010 7:01 PM, Julio Biason wrote: That's the whole problem with it. Yes, one could simply strings(1) one Mac app and probably retrieve the keys and spam the hell of Twitter with it. For the spammer, it doesn't matter if the key is revoked as he could just get another one; the real problem

Re: [twitter-dev] How to access the twitter-streams

2010-09-01 Thread yaemog Dodigo
I guess I found it... http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/sample.json is this the spritzer stream? I got it from: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_methods#methods what's confusing is that the page talks about Firehose and Gardenhose, but does not mention Spritzer thx fred On Wed, S

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API

2010-09-01 Thread Julio Biason
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:20 PM, John Meyer wrote: > 1.  reverse engineering a consumer key combo from a legit program, creating > user accounts and generating tokens, spamming it until it's locked out, > tracking down another legit program, reverse engineering it, lathering, > rinsing, and repeat

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API

2010-09-01 Thread John Meyer
On 9/1/2010 7:01 PM, Julio Biason wrote: On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:56 PM, John Meyer wrote: And rendering the key useless to the spammer. And to you. And your users. That's the whole problem with it. Yes, one could simply strings(1) one Mac app and probably retrieve the keys and spam the hell

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API

2010-09-01 Thread John Meyer
On 9/1/2010 7:47 PM, Julio Biason wrote: OAuth certainly makes sense as a model for "never type your password in some weird site 'cause you don't know when they say that they couldn't connect to Twitter is really that or they are just storing your login and password to abuse the ecosystem". The

Re: [twitter-dev] How to access the twitter-streams

2010-09-01 Thread John Kalucki
Spritzer is the default level of the sample endpoint. I clarified the documentation. On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:24 AM, yaemog Dodigo wrote: > I guess I found it... > > http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/sample.json > > is this the spritzer stream? > > I got it from: > http://dev.twitter.com/pag

[twitter-dev] t.co Rollout

2010-09-01 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
I just got an email from Twitter about oAuth and t.co. Given that I have about five accounts, I assume I will get more copies. ;-) Anyhow, in the section on t.co, there was this line: "You will start seeing these links on certain accounts that have opted-in to the service" How does an "accou

Re: [twitter-dev] t.co Rollout

2010-09-01 Thread John Meyer
On 9/1/2010 9:34 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: I just got an email from Twitter about oAuth and t.co. Given that I have about five accounts, I assume I will get more copies. ;-) Anyhow, in the section on t.co, there was this line: "You will start seeing these links on certain accounts that h

Re: [twitter-dev] t.co Rollout

2010-09-01 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
My recollection is that the character count question was discussed on this list, but I don't remember the number. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos Quoting John Meyer :

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Authentication

2010-09-01 Thread Pradeep Senanayake
HI, Thaks for the immediate reply. It doesnt work in nokia N95 also, but I will try it on wtk 3. Thanks & Regards, Pradeep. On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Ernandes Jr. wrote: > Hi, > > This is a known issue of WTK 2.5.2, which has some issues to support the > type of certificate used by Twi

[twitter-dev] Re: New SSL certificate issue with WTK 2.5.2

2010-09-01 Thread Pradeep Senanayake
HI Matt. tel me how can I get rid of that exception using HTTP. Thanks in advance. On Aug 31, 9:06 am, Matt Harris wrote: > Hey Netroboost, > > If the device doesn't support wildcard SSL these isn't much that can > be done except to use HTTP. This isn't recommended but if you have no > choice it'

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Authentication

2010-09-01 Thread Pradeep Senanayake
HI I also tried on J2ME platform 3 but its too gives an exception like belows "javax.microedition.pki.CertificateException: Certificate was issued by an unrecognized entity" pls tel me how to avoid these certificate thing and get it done using Http. thanks & regards, Pradeep. On Thu, Sep 2, 20

[twitter-dev] Using oAuth by Curl

2010-09-01 Thread Andrea Stagi
Hi, I'm developing a twitter client using curl...Yesterday twitter closed the basic authentication, replacing it with oAuth..I really need help for it! I have to convert my application now, I tried to use twurl but I receive this error: /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/twurl-0.6.1/bin/../lib/twurl/ authori

[twitter-dev] Automated OAuth

2010-09-01 Thread Cradash
We are a bit late to the game and haven't migrated to Oauth and now are scrambling to do so, we're running some Automated tweets (we get the info and put it in a Twitter stream). I haven't found any examples of how to authorize an automated stream and was wondering in anyone had any suggestions . I

[twitter-dev] Re: retweeted variable in home timeline

2010-09-01 Thread p r
thanks for the answer, retweeted_by_me gets only the retweeted statuses. to show in regular timelines the retweeted statuses is the variable retweeted the best way. i will waiting until the problems solved. greetings On 1 Sep., 03:32, Matt Harris wrote: > Hey p r, > > The retweeted status is curr

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated OAuth

2010-09-01 Thread Cradash
A Java example is unnecessary, more to the point I basically just need to figure out how it can be done. On Sep 2, 3:40 pm, Cradash wrote: > We are a bit late to the game and haven't migrated to Oauth and now > are scrambling to do so, we're running some Automated tweets (we get > the info and pu

[twitter-dev] Re: oauth echo php sample

2010-09-01 Thread sdenike
This is the header I am sending. X-Verify-Credentials-Authorization: OAuth realm="http:// api.twitter.com", oauth_consumer_key="KEY", oauth_token="TOKEN", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_signature="SIG", oauth_timestamp="1283409844", oauth_nonce="NONCE", oauth_version="1.0" X-Auth-Se

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