[twitter-dev] Streaming API Basic Auth

[Lawrence]

Hi Everyone,
I am developing a Twitter program,which needs to get access for the
Twitter streaming API. I can use Http Clients (Apache Wink) to get
data from streaming API with no problem.

However, my application needs to use JavaScript to access the
Streaming API and receive data. I got failure in the first step:
trying to pass the basic auth... Instead, i always got the 401 reply
from twitter streaming api (unauthorized)

Here is some snippet from my code,
function send(arg)
            {
               CreateXMLHttpRequest();
               xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = callhandle;
        
xmlhttp.open("GET",url);
               xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Authorization", "Basic
bXXXXXXXyZWXXXXXTY4OTE4dHxxlc==");
   // for my account security reason, i changed the string for my
password and user name, but I am pretty sure the string in my original
code is correct because I got it from the printing of my successful
http clients example.
               xmlhttp.send(arg);
           }

Is this because the cross-domain restriction? Is there any way which i
can use JS to access the streaming API to obtain data?

Cheers
Lawrence