Re: [twitter-dev] Re: More OAuth Change Please - Simple Stuff

2010-02-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:07:29PM -0800, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > I don't see how Allow being the default can be a security issue. Authorizing an app that you don't intend to has the potential to result in significant harm - forged status updates, follow list vandalism, etc. It *is* a security i

[twitter-dev] Re: More OAuth Change Please - Simple Stuff

2010-02-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I don't see how Allow being the default can be a security issue. The user is specifically sent to that page for the purpose of granting access. Only a minuscule number of users will need to click the Deny button. But, I think you're right that the real issue is that the Deny button is the first su

[twitter-dev] Re: More OAuth Change Please - Simple Stuff

2010-02-09 Thread @epc
Making "Allow" a default on a security authorization page seems to be asking for trouble later. At present the "Deny" button is of type "submit". They can't use "reset" as that won't send anything back to twitter (unless you add some sort of event via Jquery). "Deny" doesn’t appear to be the def