Why not have the controller proxy through a full-featured webserver
that can oAuth in to Twitter?

-John Kalucki
http://twitter.com/jkalucki
Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.


On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:03 AM, glenn gillen <gl...@rubypond.com> wrote:
>> oAuth is a big burden for microcontroller based devices like this -
>> OAuthcalypse will probably simply kill this app.  It seems like way
>> too much overhead to push oAuth code into this little chip.  oAuth
>> alone would probably exceed all the rest of the application code on
>> the device combined.
>
> I couldn't find anything on the blog or the related sites given
> examples of the code being used to run this GarageBot other than it
> was running on uClinux. What code/libraries (if any) are you presently
> using to connect to the API?
>
> The curl guys are working on building oauth support direct into curl,
> so that should provide a fallback for these kind of apps. You could
> probably use curl now provided you had a way of generating the
> oauth_nonce parameter (http://oauth.net/core/1.0a/#auth_header).
>
> If you could divulge a little more about your setup, and what kind of
> constraints you have to work within, we might be lucky enough to have
> someone in this group that can think of a solution.
> --
> Glenn Gillen
> http://glenngillen.com/
>

Reply via email to