On Jul 5, 5:48 pm, Jef Poskanzer <j...@mail.acme.com> wrote: > Part 0: Deciding to do it. My apps are command-line based and call > Twitter using my equivalents of curl, called http_get and http_post. > These are simple command-line programs that make an HTTP call. What > I needed was a simple command-line program to make an OAuth-signed HTTP > call. Did that already exist? Sort of - there was Marcel Molina's > twurl:http://github.com/marcel/twurl Only problem is that it's written > in Ruby, which I do not have installed and am not really intrerested in > installing. For those of us who want to stick with plain old C or > possibly C++, the only available OAuth code is > liboauth:http://liboauth.sourceforge.net/ This includes code to link with > libcurl and make signed HTTP calls. It's pretty huge - 1.6 megabytes > of source. I tried it anyway. Unfortunately I couldn't get to work > on my system. So I was kind of stuck, and decided to roll my own.
Another option is librest -- http://meego.gitorious.org/meego-middleware/librest It uses GObject and libsoup which is either a big plus or a huge negative, depending on your point of view. Ross
