[twitter-dev] Twitter OAuth works fine in my app then I get error when trying to login to Twitter.com site
OAuth works fine in my application but then when I open a new tab to login to twitter, I login and I get this message: Woah there! This page requires some information that was not provided. Please return to the site that sent you to this page and try again … it was probably an honest mistake. When I hit back on the browser, the error message goes away and I am at my home page. This looks to be a bug with Twitter's OAuth. Here are the steps to reproduce: 1) Make sure you are logged out of twitter.com 2) Use a third party app to login to twitter: (you can use this demo: http://twitteroauth.appspot.com/) 3) Open a second tab, go to twitter.com and login. You should get the error message above? I am not too familiar with OAuth but I have used a few different code libraries for python and they all seem to have the same issue. Any one experience similar?
Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter OAuth works fine in my app then I get error when trying to login to Twitter.com site
Following up to myself: Yes I experience the same. Not sure what causes it... I see the same thing. The browser location bar shows http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize when you have the error page up. So something is redirecting us to the /oauth when we try a normal web login. Digging a little, I see a twitter.com _twitter_sess cookie is pushed to my browser by Twitter when I'm redirected to the auth page in step 2. The cookie is set to expire at end of session. Maybe that should be changed to have it expire in a couple of minutes, or maybe that cookie shouldn't be pushed to us at all. Does it interfere with signing in with a second 3rd party app? If I remove that cookie before going to Twitter in step 3, it all works fine. 1) Make sure you are logged out of twitter.com 2) Use a third party app to login to twitter 3) Open a second tab, go to twitter.com and login. You should get the error message above? Terry
Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter OAuth works fine in my app then I get error when trying to login to Twitter.com site
There is an issue open for this: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1199 Abraham On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 14:30, Terry Jones te...@jon.es wrote: Following up to myself: Yes I experience the same. Not sure what causes it... I see the same thing. The browser location bar shows http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize when you have the error page up. So something is redirecting us to the /oauth when we try a normal web login. Digging a little, I see a twitter.com _twitter_sess cookie is pushed to my browser by Twitter when I'm redirected to the auth page in step 2. The cookie is set to expire at end of session. Maybe that should be changed to have it expire in a couple of minutes, or maybe that cookie shouldn't be pushed to us at all. Does it interfere with signing in with a second 3rd party app? If I remove that cookie before going to Twitter in step 3, it all works fine. 1) Make sure you are logged out of twitter.com 2) Use a third party app to login to twitter 3) Open a second tab, go to twitter.com and login. You should get the error message above? Terry -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | Awesome Lists | http://twitterli.st This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
