Yes, that is the difference. -Chad
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:44 AM, hansamann<sven.hai...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > thanx, good to know. > > I am also wondering about one thing: > > - if a user has authorized himself (using the authorize URL, not > authenticate... will try that out later) and does the same process > again, e.g. get's redirected to the authorize URL again, but with a > new request token of course, he is AGAIN asked to sign in. I am not > sure why, twitter could in this case just know that the user is signed > in already. Also looking into the cookies, there is a twitter session > established. > > It could be the default is just to show the login screen again... > > Or... is this the little difference between the authentication / > authorization call. In this case authorization will always ask the > user to sign in, and grant access to my app, but not keep the signed > in user for the next call (which will not happen many times of course, > most people just authorize once per session or even less). > > Instead, the authentication process truely detects a already present > twitter session and will NOT ask the user to sign in even if he should > be signed in already. > > Is that correct? > > Cheers > Sven > > On Jul 21, 11:26 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Last I heard it changes nothing currently. There might be some >> features restricted to it in the future like using the faster >> oauth/authenticate method. >> Abraham >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:03, hansamann <sven.hai...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi all, >> >> > I am using twitter OAuth which works just fine, but I am not sure what >> > exactly this means on the oauth signup page: >> >> > Use Twitter for login: Yes, use Twitter for login >> > Does your application intend to use Twitter for authentication? >> >> > What happens if I check this box? Will there be something different or >> > is this just an internal tracking for Twitter so they know what people >> > intend to do? >> >> > Cheers >> > Sven >> >> -- >> Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org >> Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham >> Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com >> This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. >> Sent from Madison, WI, United States
