Julio, We intend to keep Basic Auth available until we feel that OAuth can successfully exit beta as a fully functioning authentication offer. This includes support and a positive user experience for desktop clients.
Thanks, @dougw On 4/22/09, Julio Biason <julio.bia...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Chris Latko <ch...@latko.org> wrote: >> I'm going to have to side with Alex on this one. The APIs should be >> protected by OAuth and that is what should be pushed out and the basic >> auth deprecated. What I don't really understand is why it has taken >> until now to promote OAuth. I understand OAuth is an evolving >> standard, but it has been around for quite a while. > > Still waiting for a good explanation of how to use OAuth in a > console-only, no-browser environment. Until then, I see that Basic > Auth should remain active. > > -- > Julio Biason <julio.bia...@gmail.com> > Twitter: http://twitter.com/juliobiason > -- Sent from my mobile device Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw
