My point is that Basic Auth will be going away with the API. If an application is not using the API, then it's developers don't have to worry about Basic Auth going away because it won't concern them.
OAuth is for API authorization, not website authorization. Ryan On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:11 PM, PJB <pjbmancun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > You clearly do not understand the basics of HTTP. Do you think that > > > Twitter is going to somehow deny Firefox, IE, and other desktop > > > clients from connecting to Twitter with a simple username and password > > > only? > > > > Since when do Firefox and IE use the API to communicate with Twitter? > Last > > time I checked, they don't...but maybe I am just missing something. > > My point is that desktop apps can perform Twitter actions without > going through the API. > > Any "crackdown" on particular behaviors of Web-based Twitter apps will > likely see that behavior shift to desktop apps, as they are > exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to centrally restrict.
