Missed the part about the one letter change. Clever! ---Mark
http://twitter.com/mccv On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Mark McBride <mmcbr...@twitter.com> wrote: > You'll almost certainly want to change the password on that account > immediately, as the basic auth header is easily decrypted. > > ---Mark > > http://twitter.com/mccv > > > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Oli <oliverst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Also worth noting: there was no error returned - it hung up after 3/4 >> seconds. If you connect to twitter.com port 80 using hyperterminal / >> winsock, you can copy and paste (replacing the authorisation, and >> enabling append line feeds onto line ends in hyperterminal options) my >> examples and see this for yourself. >> >> Any other ideas? I would really appreciate any comments on this issue. >> >> On Mar 19, 3:16 pm, Oli <oliverst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi there, >> > >> > I've just been playing about and have come across a curious bug (I >> > have changed one letter of the hashcode) - connecting and sending >> > >> > POSThttp://twitter.com/statuses/update.jsonHTTP/1.1 >> > Host: twitter.com >> > Authorization: Basic bWz0cm9uMjpwb2tlcmNoYW1wMQ== >> > Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded >> > Content-length: 36 >> > Connection: Close >> > >> > status=ALAhM%3A+Test_Unit+t1%3A35tej >> > >> > DOESN'T WORK but >> > >> > POSThttp://twitter.com/statuses/update.jsonHTTP/1.1 >> > Host: twitter.com >> > Authorization: Basic bWz0cm9uMjpwb2tlcmNoYW1wMQ== >> > Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded >> > Content-length: 35 >> > Connection: Close >> > >> > status=ALAhM%3A+Test_Unit+t1%3A35te >> > >> > DOES - why is this?? Many thanks in advance >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+ >> unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE >> ME" as the subject. >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
